... I heard myself say at least 4 times today..."Stop complaining, when I was a kid...." ---"we went outside first thing in the morning, came in for lunch, went back out, came in for dinner, and didn't come in till the street lights came on, and even if we wanted to come in ya-ya would shove us out the door again."
---"we found ways to keep cool, we didn't need adults to demonstrate that for us."
---"we had to eat what was on our plate, without complaining, no exceptions--even if it made us gag."
---"it was hot in the summer (in the house, in the car, etc...). That was just the way it was and we smiled and enjoyed it."
I realized I was a mom and felt MY AGE when...fully clothed, and watching the girls struggle with understanding how to slide on a slip and slide ( the way I did when I was a kid), I told them to stand back and watch 'the real way' to slide. (fully clothed, I might add, and not once thinking that I was going to get wet....WHAT?!). So, I run, and run...jump into the air and belly flop on the VERY, VERY, HARD, Harder than I could ever imagine it would be, GROUND. (Well, I maybe slid---AN INCH!) The girls looked on--very concerned, and when I finally pulled myself off the ground and got on my feet, they said to me--"Mom, you got your clothes all wet". I went in the house, now fully aware, that my 30's are here.
I realized I was officially a mom, and maybe going BLIND when....I was bending over to pick something up off the floor, beside the kitchen table, and SLAMMED my forehead into the table on my way down. I about knocked myself out, and ended up with a large grape-sized welt above my right eye.
Well, that is about all the 'mom moments', well all that I care to share with you all, for now. Pics are from babysitting, treats from my garden, different tastes from summer that I wish I could just bottle up.
The complaints about the heat well....my kids have been spoiled going from central air (that my husband likes to keep at 73 or so), to an air conditioned car, etc...and after getting my last power bill I decided to shut the air off...then my car was in the shop for 3 days so we were home a lot more than usual. 
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haha,the slip and slide made me laugh b/c it's totally something I would do (hmmm, probably have done)... the visual was hysterical. And the fact that your body is very aware that the 30's are here made me laugh, too, b/c my body knows the exact same thing. I realized the other day when I jumped off the porch to the ground since there are no railings yet... my knees almost buckled and I felt like I must've broken something... that I'm SO not in my 20's anymore. I also know this now that I started a facebook page and feel a little bit old and foolish on there.
Too old to be on facebook?! What the heck are you talking about. Look me up chick...under Rebecca Paquette Smith. :)
If I would have been drinking anything, it would so be all over the computer screen right now! The slip-n-slide visual is HYSTERICAL!! In fact, I'm still laughing! Oh, and I bump my head, my arms, my legs, and my feet on things all the time. Last year we bought a new bed frame, and both Mark and I had black & blue marks all over our legs from bumping into the corners of the footboard. Seriously, it looked like we were beating on each other or something! Then the other day, I practically broke my little toe after stubbing it really hard on the leg of the couch. I iced it right away, and thankfully the swelling went down!
Hope the heat lets up for you soon! Last summer we went a few days without AC (it was broken), and our upper level (where the bedrooms are) was about 95ยบ ALL the time. I'm pretty comfortable at 82, but anything above that, and it gets too muggy in here.
When I was 18 years old, Dad bragged to me of how fast of a runner he was, I laughed and told him he could never beat me. Still believing in the glory days of his youth and wanting to teach me a lesson he challenged me to to a 1 mile race. We went down to the track behind Dracut high school - 4 laps = 1 mile... by the second lap I was running the race backwards just to tease him, by the time he started the third lap I had already finished and was "encouraging" him from the sidelines... he never did the fourth lap. Now here I am, the age Dad was when he challenged me and I find myself looking at younger kids and thinking "I could take him in a race"...
i have totally smacked my head on so many things...just like you described. the first thing I do? look around to see if anyone was watching!
I can sympathize with the heat, I'm in Phoenix, AZ and its a bit warm now!
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