So.  We visited my sis for lunch (a total novelty living in the same city - especially since she’s like an amazing cook & appreciates and feeds my Starbucks addiction).  Then the kids & I popped into the grocery store.  It went down like this:

[One slightly frazzled - but inherently hip groovy nice mama - walking down the dairy aisle with two children.  Smallest offspring gets this pained expression, begins to drag his feet & droop his head]

Max [a dramatic, desperate tone amplified with the whining factor]:  Mom, I’m SOOOO hungry.  I’m SOOOOOOO HUNGRY.  I’M LIKE STARVING.

Mama Me [a-trying-not-to-be-exasperated tone]:  You’re not hungry.

Max:  I’m SOOOOOO STARVING. 

Grocery Store Man turns around giving the mother a small frown.  Mother checks to make sure she’s not wearing the skull shoes, and smiles because the very appropriate, mature, motherly Hush Puppy footwear give her legitimacy.

Mama Me:  Max, you’re so not starving.  And we’ll eat when we get home.

Max [somehow getting his voice even LOUDER than it was]:  BUT WE DON’T EVEN HAVE A HOME.

[Grocery man doesn’t care that the Mama has appropriate footwear or that she hasn’t LOST HER MIND.  Dirty looks abound.]

And he’s right - we don’t take possession of a house of our own until the end of the month.  But it was one of those mother moments… never to be forgotten….

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