Are we being honest?

missypie
Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:58:01 +0000

I can really only think of one mom at school who actively brags and compares. One year her D was first chair in her section at all region choir. Our D was second chair. (Great accomplishment on both their parts!) The mom asked me what chair my D had made - I absolutely knew that she knew, but she only asked me so she could say that her D got first.

We just laughed when we got home - knowing what she was doing, we should have said that OUR D had gotten first chair, just to see her sputter and to make her call the next morning to confirm that it was HER D.

She became a family joke…every time we saw her she’d compare our kids (we had two sets of kids the same age) … She didn’t offend us - she just made us laugh because she was like a character from a sit com or something. (BTW, her Ds are both terrific girls and would never brag or compare.)