"Mom, You're Weird!"

My children learn early that I'm not always what you would call normal. I tend to embarrass them, especially the older one. I'm not adverse to acting oddly in public. I've walked around a mall with two girl friends while we were wearing tiaras...just because we could. Even hopped out of the car to grab a pack of cigarettes wearing the tiara, my pant legs rolled up and wearing the disposable flip-flops from a pedicure. That was fantastic! I do it to make people wonder, sure. But I also do it to prove that embarrassment, although no fun, is fleeting and most people will soon forget if you happen to become embarrassed in public. Even if you can't seem to forget it.


I also do it because it's fun to just cut loose and be obnoxious.



(Yeah, I'm normal...for a freak!)





Last weekend again brought a round of the weirds. I walked by a box of pinwheels. That's all it took. Hubby had the son in a different part of the toy section and I was walking around with the girl. I grabbed two pinwheels (matching, of course!) and suddenly I'm running through the toy section of a large chain store, pushing a shopping cart while holding the pinwheels out to the side and screaming, "Weeeeeeeee, we, we, weeeeeeeeeeeee!" If I had actually thought it out I would have gone over a row and gotten a helmet to put on first....but, it was impulsive and I didn't think of it at the time.


Hubby must have known it was me. Really, who else would be doing something like that? He popped around the corner and we dissolved into a mass of laughter. The son kept looking at toys he absolutely had to have because he saw a commercial for them on television. The daughter couldn't decide if she wanted to laugh with us or hide and claim to not know us. It ended up being a little bit of both. She's learning. I'm not exactly sure what she's learning.





It might just be that her mother is weird.