Nacho Granny!
OMG!! I must stop going places with my two daycare children. I have them Monday thru Friday from 6am to 5pm...so since I only have the two and they are both way beyond potty training (ages 3 and 4) we go everywhere. The other day we decided to venture out to Krogers to get the items needed to make walking Nachos, or Tacos...(Not a diet friendly recipe but soooo good!)
Not once, not twice, but three, count 'em three damn times people asked if the girls are my GRAND CHILDREN!!! WTH??? I mean I'm not wearing one of those nifty double knit pant suits, or carrying a granny purse...I don't have gray hair, or many gray hairs, I don't have a curl and set boufont hairdoo...I'm not covered in pasty makeup and wrinkles...or wearing overly bright red lip stick and thick eyeliner...WTH?? What is matronly looking about me?
First of all, I'm not an overly friendly person with strangers, partly shyness and partly I don't like people in my business....sorry, just the way I am. BTW if you work at Kroger or Walmart and need to see my ID with my Credit Card-DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME BY MY FIRST NAME!! I hate that, and No- it doesn't make me feel like I'm shopping at a friendly store. It makes me feel like smacking a cashier!
Second of all I don't think I am old enough to be their Grandmother. Although technically I guess I could be, especially if I were a teen mother and they had teen mothers. My son is 10 and although I did get a late start I don't feel like I would be old enough to be his Grandmother!! I'm am usually great at a quick comeback but all 3 times the best I could manage when someone asked if I were the Grandmother was "NO". Then they stand there as if waiting for an explaination..... and I stare them down. This usually takes a few minutes because after all these are CLUELESS people.
Should I tell them "That was rude!"?? If I say "That's none of your business."-that would be rude of me. Do I need to explain I'm the babysitter? I don't really care to. I wonder if I weren't feeling fat and frumpy right now would people see me differently?
Anyway, I think I need to hang out with older kids, then maybe I'll look younger.
Ds is driving me crazy, his behavior is much better, being grounded a week solved that. Now he swears his knee has been hurting for a year. Uh a year?? Oh and his elbow too!! Great, so instead of spending a couple hundred dollars going back and forth to the family practice and seeing the nurse practioner (who is way better than most doctors) I made him an appointment with a really good Sports Medicine Doctor. If y'all hear of a explosion in the city of Memphis this week it will be his father's head exploding when he finds out the crappy insurance he changed to just to save a buck will cover approximately 20% of the bill. :D The second smaller explosion will be my mother's head since I'm unemployed and have no $$ she will be loaning me my 1/2. 
Hopefully they will set ds up with a exercise routine to build muscle/ligament strength to help his joint pain. Our baseball may be coming to an end early this year if not.
I'm on a mexican food kick, probably a good thing because everything I've been making has been really healthy! (well except the walking Nachos) Last night pork loin Carnitas...Last week Beef Tamales!! I totally rock at the tamale thing now, finally getting the hang of wrapping them where they stay wrapped without the aid of Margaritas. I used to make tamales with some friends and it was an assembly line process that involved lots of tequilla and limes....so I don't really remember much of the process.
My son is hooked on Pico De Gallo on everything :D He also is not missing chips and queso dip that he used to think was required with all Mexican food. Just like I thought Margaritas were required...although an occasional Margarita would be nice...
Off to work on school work, and go cash April's child support...and pay the evil water company before they turn me off.