Kids Say The Darndest Things

Funny I think some of my best thoughts come when I can’t sleep. Typically that falls between 12 to 2 am or 4 to 6 am. Tonight it seems this mind won’t be turned off.

I like to think of myself as a cool mom. I mean I make donut runs late at night with my kids or make impromptu dance videos with them to old music but I also realize I’m getting older. Especially when my oldest says the oddest things and I know I’m supposed to get it but I realize I’m now that girl who has become not as cool as she once was. For example she and a friend came in a few months back and said “Oh mom we have to spill the tea”… I honestly thought they spilled something. Am I that lame? What happened to I have the “411” or I’ve got some deets for ya? I mean that’s so last year I guess..🙄 We recently went to Nashville and the valet told me if I wanted to see some “Predators”, I could visit the rooftop bar. I said that sounds a bit sketchy and he said that’s the hockey team. Lol I mean I knew that but I was slow.(admit some of you would have been too)

Let’s go back to summer of 1996… I was a lady who knew how to speak the language. In fact my cousin and I deemed ourselves so cool that we decided to invent a word and circulate it around our church and town. It worked too. We created the phrase “gerting up”.. which means to be all up in your nerves. That was in honor of our Granny Gert who was by all accounts a worrier or nervous. So to be that “hip” and to lose your edge is daunting.

Fast forward to 2019. I blame social media for one. Texting for two. Both let things get lost in translation. When you deliver a line in person or by way of your voice then things are delivered so much better. I try to make funnies with my girls and they say mom that is not funny at all.(I do see them laugh probably at me not with me)

Ghosting is my new favorite word of this generation. I looked it up. It says the practice of ending a personal relationship with someone by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication. Ok I just say that’s called getting the shaft or being rude. Its happened to me a few times and it never gets easy. I mean I’ll have the best relationship with my customer, go to their house to cut their sick parents hair, listen to problems, make them look fabulous and then one day…. ghosted 👻. What’s worse is when you see them out and they act like you didn’t cut their hair for 15 years and help name their first child and totally give you the weird “hellos”. I get leaving your hairdresser is hard. I had someone leave and comeback this week. I never say they can’t come back and if I see them out I want them to speak and not act so odd. I know wishful thinking and apparently this is my issue I have with rejection. (Therapy teaches a lot..) People pleasing is also a big issue as well. I digress…

Bottom line is when did I become a 45 year old mom who still says “She jawned you out didn’t she?” Or worse yet when I finally catch on to a saying it’s already old. Oh this song is “off the chain”…Please never say this in a crowd of teens. You know though the language barriers may exist but the heart is still strong. Funny the words I love you and I believe in you still are as relevant as they were when I was young. I can look at my daughters and tell them you’re the best part of me and they don’t think it’s lame. They know it’s from my heart. So moms and dads don’t be dismayed. We still are going to say the cheesiest comments at the worst times for the remainder of our kids life. They will make fun or roll their eyes a lot too. What I do know is the words from your heart, the words you truly mean…Say them. Tell them. My daddy told me those are “words never wasted.” I think he was pretty clever that day. I still do.. and I also think he says some pretty funny things from his time too. Just the circle of life I guess. We are all in this together. Encourage your friends, lift up your coworkers, listen to your kids “spill the tea” and most importantly don’t “ghost” your hairdressers😉. Have a good one and remember we can’t control how others hear or see us.. all we can control is how we let it affect us. We are too blessed to be stressed. Good night Cville:)

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