Looking In The Mirror

When you look in the mirror, what do you see?

I *thought* I was pretty kewl. Spelled kewl because I'm cool like that. :)

I *thought* that I wasn't a "PTA mom".

But, apparently, I was wrong.

Evidentially, I am a dorky soccer mom.

One of the moms in the neighborhood told me that she thought that I was dorky before she got to know me.

Dorky.

Man...I feel like I'm in junior high again. Feeling self conscious and all.

Then at the NASCAR race this weekend, one of the guys tailgating told me that I was a soccer mom.

Wow.

That threw me off. I've never considered myself anywhere near a quote/unquote soccer mom (or what I consider to be a "soccer mom.") My kids aren't in a gazillion activities because I don't want to haul them around all the time and definitely don't want to spend our entire weekend at endless activities. If they are in a sport, I'm not screaming at them from the side line.

Well...except when I told Owen to remember that he was actually at soccer practice.

Kind of ironic that it was at a soccer game, eh?

Before I get hate mail, there's nothing wrong with being a soccer mom. I just never thought of myself that way. You could certainly be worse things.

It's just the way that the guy said it. Like it was a put down or something.

It's things like that that just make you stop and say "hum."

It's weird that someone would judge you without knowing you. I guess that I've been brought up to believe that people are people and the janitor is just as important as the CEO of the company. When I worked at the Senate, I spoke to the senators the same way that I spoke to the janitor. There's no judgement. Ever.

It's also weird that the way that people perceive you. Or maybe it's weird the way that I perceive myself. Maybe I really am a soccer mom and I'm just in denial.

Either way, I guess not everyone sees me as the cool, skinny 21 year old girl that I see myself as. :o)