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Thursday, May 29, 2008

I'm Officially Old

I'm old. Yes, it's official. Today in an attempt to explain to my older son (OS) why he needed to wear sunscreen, I shared a story from when I got a really bad sunburn when I was a little girl. OS looked impressed. I further explained that I wasn't allowed to go outside for three whole days because the burn was so bad. OS kept focusing on the part when I was a little girl. He had an incredulous look at his face. I recognized that look. It's the same look I had when my dad would tell stories about when he was a little boy. It's the "Yeah, right! You were never little! Good one!" look. This was quickly followed by the "You're so old you must have crawled out from under a rock" look. OS even asked to talk to my mom for confirmation of the sunburn story.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Sunburn is scary. The thought of your parents having been children is terrifying.

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 6:50 PM   6 comments
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  • At 5/30/2008 8:34 AM, Blogger Heather said…

    My older daughter finds it so fascinating when I talk about things that happened when I was a kid. I guess I didn't realize she probably thinks she's hearing about the time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

     

  • At 5/30/2008 11:35 AM, Blogger Tracey said…

    It's strange when you realize that you truly ARE old in their eyes. That they perceive you in the way that we perceive our OWN parents...

     

  • At 5/30/2008 2:05 PM, Blogger Stacey said…

    DS1 always wants to know about the bad things I did when I was little. I once told him I knew he was sneaking cookies because I used to do the same thing & you can't fool someone who's done the same thing. The idea of me as a little girl he has a hard time with, but the idea that I was sometimes a bad little girl is more acceptable.

     

  • At 5/30/2008 4:05 PM, Blogger Jen of A2eatwrite said…

    It's even worse when you teach young children, and they believe you were teaching before there were buildings or something.

     

  • At 5/30/2008 9:32 PM, Blogger Life As I Know It said…

    My 6 year old loves it when we tell him stories about when we were kids. Like it was a million years ago and so so foreign to him...geez, we aren't that old!

     

  • At 6/02/2008 2:51 PM, Blogger painted maypole said…

    MQ loves to hear about when i was a little girl, although for a long time was convinced she would grow up to be my mommy, and I would be her little girl. I loved that idea. ;)

     
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