Its Friday! Woo! Time to party! Oh wait both of my roomies went home for the weekend...Soooo I guess that means its going to be a Law & Order SVU marathon kind of day! Totally kidding I promise I'm going to be slightly productive today...Maybe!
Yesterday I talked about how you act reflects onto how your parents raised you. I think another component to look at are habits. Whatever your habits are, at least while you're with your parents, they are somehow connected to something your parents do or did. Now I'm not saying if your parent does something then you'll automatically do it, but your habits can be stemmed from the habits of your parents. For example no matter what or where we go, as long as someone from my family is going somewhere we will be late. No question about it. Growing up I was always late to school, the ladies at the attendance desk almost always had a pre-made slip for me because they were expecting me. It was that bad. It was just kind of funny how late we were and still are and from that I got a 'reputation' for being late, totally undeserved on my part. So from my parents habit of being late everywhere I grew this weird habit of always needing to be way early for class or any other type of event. If there is a time I need to be there I'm almost always there 15 minutes early. That's how I roll. I'm only saying this because today I was taken out of my element and was made late to my class this morning and it totally reminded me of back when my mom drove me everywhere.
Totally random, you're welcome.
Memory #11
The other day I was at my college ministry night and I was talking to this girl there who was wearing brand new glasses. I've always been jealous of people who need glasses, is that weird? I just think if you get the right pair for your face it just makes you look so put together. So of course I started to admire her glasses and then I started to tell her this story-
In this memory I was in second grade and Sambo was in pre-k I believe. Anyways we were all at the doctors because Sam needed some shots or something and my mom decided to kill two birds with one stone and get my overall checkup done too. So at some point a nurse came and took me to go get my eyes checked. At that point I was extremely proud of my perfect 20/20 vision so I went and took the test in confidence. I don't remember the mindset I was in while taking the test but I don't particularly remember purposefully missing up on the test, so when the nurse told me that I had missed some letters. I do recall feeling muddled especially as she continued to say the magic words, "You might want to look into glasses." which translated in my mind as "You should get glasses!". This quickly turned into "I need glasses."
The next couple of weeks were definitely a trial for my poor mother. Since my mother hadn't made any noise of going immediately to the eye doctor as I had imagined and hoped for I had to come up with a way to convince her of the necessity of glasses were. So in my perplexed state I came to the perfect conclusion, I would prove to her in real life how badly I needed glasses. How did I do this exactly? It was simple and obvious. I ran into walls. Seriously that was my ultimate plan. For almost a week straight I would just randomly run into walls, especially around my mom. I kid you not. So my mom of course had to find a solution to end my nonsense. So my mom did take me to the eye doctor but I guess she had let him in on my not so well-planned scheme, because not once did he mention how great my eye sight was. He just did the eye test and handed me a pair of glasses. I thought I was soooo smart, my plan had worked! I fooled my mom and the eye doctor!
I wore those glasses for maybe a month tops and then quickly forgot about them. No one ever said anything about it. One day a couple years back I found my glasses and you'll never believe it...They were fake! My mom outfoxed me! What's new?
Moral? Your mom will always be smarter than you, sorry not sorry!
Love always,
Erin
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