Me: Hey, Margie! Elliott! Guess who I love!
Kids: Us!
Me: Oh. Well. Um. Yes! Of course. But I was going to say the Doctor.*
Margie: Mo-om.
Me: But you know I’d probably choose you over him.
Margie: Oh, mom! I love you!**
Me: Hey. I just said probably. Don’t get too excited yet.
Margie: “Probably” is pretty much “yes.”
*What? I’m a loving mom in all other scenarios.
**See? She understands what a complement that was.
On Tuesdays the kids have Junior Theatre classes in Balboa Park and while they are learning to sing and dance, I sit with the other parents and drink coffee and sometimes knit or take pictures. Last week I took the Harry Potter camera and got some great shots so I thought I’d bring it this week, too. But it is, like, crazy hard to take self-portraits TTV and there weren’t a lot of (clean, shiny) reflective surfaces around. I considered heading over to the Lily Pond for a shot, but glanced down and saw this and loved the idea of TTV a slightly different way.
Remember how yesterday I was wearing my rain boots? Naturally today would be flip-flop weather.
I am, in no particular order... single mom, friend, hippie, liberal, Pagan, woman, attachment parent, paranoid, anxious, novice photographer, homeschooler, former breastfeeder, hiker, camper, dysfunctional, adult child of an alcoholic, hilarious, listener, sincere, honest, knitter, semi-crafty and artistic, feminist, writer, Doctor Who Addict, independent, mildly self-absorbed.
