Me: Hip mom?

Growing up I always thought that couples without children were incomplete and totally weird for not having kids. Which is actually pretty horrendous considering that my parents have several friends without kids and they're pretty rad. When I was little I always envisioned myself as a totally hip mom. You know, driving my girls to dance practice and sons to whatever in my silver Lexus 350 SUV wearing totally fetch outfits in olive hues from J.Crew and keeping all my belonging in my camel-colored Coach handbag. I may not have always known what I wanted to do in life, but I sure knew how I wanted to look! (I have really detailed day dreams...)

And then this all changed.... maybe not my taste for the finer things in life, but to put it frankly my taste for children. In like the last year. Maybe it's because I haven't met that someone who I want to have kids with, maybe it's because I'm suppressing my fear that I'll never meet that someone and am therefore trying to make myself believe that I don't want kids, or maybe because deep down inside I know what my kids will be like. They're going to "cute" only if you have to deal with their demands, I mean antics, for short periods of times (i.e. they're going to be brats). Despite my strict rules and regulations of course. My children will be out of control. And I know this not only because I have this motherly instinct about my children of my distant distant d-i-s-t-a-n-t future, but because people have told me. Not even psychics, but my friends, so far 7 of them have made this comment, and my family. Gee, thanks guys!

So to give you all a preview of my children and to prepare yourselves THIS is going to be my child. Except blonde of course!

Maybe my mother's friends weren't totally weird as my charming 6 year old self thought. Maybe, just maybe they were completely sane not wanting to have to deal with the whining, their kids believing that they are perfect no. matter. what, the talking back, the tattle-tailing, the fighting, and the lies. (These thoughts may or may not have stemmed from working in a school and dealing with children at their worst...)