when strangers ask me if they are ALL mine. today, while shopping at williams sonoma, the gal at the counter who was being oh-so-helpful says completely incredulously (can i say that?! well if i can’t- it’s just to explain how totally dumbstruck she truly was!) “are those ALL your kids?!” and instantly she fell off my nice list. i am just totally amazed that people ask things like this.. or tell me that i look too young to have so many kids. i mean, 3 is not the brady bunch. and even if it was, why point out the total obvious to a complete stranger?! who cares?! get a clue! many people have told me that i should take it as a compliment. well, i don’t. AT ALL. i am so over it. so once again, my fake smile was plastered over my face and my dagger eyes appeared next to the fake twinkle in ’em as i entered a conversation that i have had over a 500 times with various strangers. ‘yes, they are. yes, i am young. yes, they keep me busy.’ crazy lady. no, didn’t you know? i like dragging around 3 squealing, racing children all over your fine store…it’s fun. NOT. 🙂
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watersix 
Well fart on her! I am 30 and without children, so I get the opposite-you don’t have any kids yet? When are you going to have them? Don’t you want them? UGH!!!
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I get the same thing ALL the time. I am 32 with 3 kids, my oldest is almost 16. I’m like yep. they’re ALL mine and yep. I’m young. Do the math. Makes me furious, too.
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Forgot to add at my son’s high school, one of the mom’s asked me what grade I was in. I’m like, um…I’m his mom. Go figure.
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big fat raspberry idiots with no manners. She doesn’t even know how old you ARE! you’re just too cute, James, she probably though you were like 23 or something! and hey, LOVE that photo, aren’t y’all the sweetest family ever?!!!! {{{{HUGS}}}}
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well you DO look too young to have all three of them. i’d kill for your skin, jamie!!
just wait til you’ve got the new little person in tow, too. 😉
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It’s cause your so cute & hip, man. 😉 We’re all going to be jealous (even the lady behind the counter) when you’re a senior citizen looking like a twenty-five year old! :p
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I’m SO with you. Just wait til the baby’s here and you’ll be a regular circus freak show (like me). “How old are you? Wow, you’re brave. They must keep you busy” (really meaning, you must want to kill yourself)…I’d like to agree with Loni…they’re surprised you look so rockin’ and hot instead of like a frazzled mom. 🙂
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That’s like some lady in the frozen food section of the grocery store passing by me and my 4 kidlets and whispering to herself as she pick out her Haggen Daz…”that’s just freakin’ crazy.” I blurted out, “not crazy…organized.” (BTW — I’m 30, my oldest is 10 and my youngest is 2)
Rock on! and Oh, Congrats on #4!
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You crack me up so much Jame…I am LOL. You are such a great mom too!! If she only knew!! Well I love ya and I think you guys look so cute in that photo!
Hugs to everyone!
Love,
Rach
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How rude! I once had a cashier ask me if my check would go through. OMG! Had I an extra few minutes I would have complained but what the heck..
Beautiful photo btw!
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oh well! i would love to have 3 kids and one on the way and look as incredible as you do!!!!!
just say something next time like, “no they just look like me, they aren’t mine” or “no i am their big sister”>LOL!!!
tara
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i hear ya woman. i get it all the time too. repairmen who come in my house often ask if i run a daycare. and i have been asked if they all have the same dad!!!!
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Some peoples kids HUH!!???
But you do look young , and thats a complimant 🙂
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Same here, Jamie, nothing different especially when I am with Trish.
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oh please!!! three isn’t enough to make me wonder that about anyone. And i’m not sayin’ that just because I have four. LOL Now, TEN would be reason enough to ask, but still it sounds so RUDE, man!!
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🙂 You are funny!
Why in the world do people feel the need to comment on things like that???
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That is so crazy to me. I’m so used to families of 5 (sometimes more) in Utah that 3 wouldn’t even seem like a big number to me.
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I know when I first met you I couldn’t get over it. Oh what I would give to look 18.:) You are just too cute, and calm…:)
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I’ve gotten that too, with only 3 kids! I feel the same way, not the brady bunch! LOL And then I get the “do they have the same father”. What the heck are people thinking?
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