Sorry Mom!

My mother just read my blog for the first time ever and actually laughed at everything I picked up throughout all my years as her daughter... She was happy to learn that at some point in my life, I was actually listening.
Now! I can seriously write novels on my mother's, "momisms" but instead I will tell you her one cardinal rule on birthday parties when we were growing up... Just because my friend Julie LOVES this one! So, growing up my mother never allowed us to go to a birthday party in the park. No, it wasn't because we had allergies or that she didn't want us to get hurt and it wasn't even because she didn't want us to get dirty... It was because she found it to be extremely offensive for someone to have the audacity to invite HER children to a birthday party in the park as to say that they were savages and would destroy their home. Yes! I know but I never said she wasn't intense! I mean, I KINDA get it, I guess... She always made sure that we knew we were important. "If you aren't offered, don't ask", "Don't act like an animal in the Pinata, I'll buy you everything you want when you get home", "The reason you can't play in the mud is because your dress was imported from Spain, her dress was imported from across the street", "I expect my children to all have a chair at your party. If they do not, they will not be going. I don't want them to have to fight for a chair when they're tired." You might think that I had an awful childhood but it was the exact opposite. I had the best a person could ask for and only hope to be a fraction as great as my parents were with me. My mother made sure we valued ourselves and I love her for that. I never in my life let a man use me... I never in my life felt less than anyone and I never in my life felt insecure around ANYONE. I mean, I was the little girl who felt she was above hand games! True story!
So! Sophia recently got invited to a birthday in the park and well... I was extremely offended that they would think my daughter was such a savage that she wouldn't be allowed in their home :) Thanks for everything mom! You see! I was listening!