Before I had kids, I spent the better part of two decades googling at strangers' children as I walked past them, clutching at my heart and staggering a bit, ovaries pinging at the sight of sweetster babies and sturdy little boys and curly haired girls in sweet dresses. Baby docs, lord save me.
This morning, a friend of Bodhi's was walking our way home with his mother, so I abandoned the car so they could run together. We got to the grassy patch and my small long haired son started his loping, hopping run, those industrious elbows workin, up high, and his hair all over his face, and his 70s t shirt, blue with red sleeves, and little combats. Damn the boy is cute.
And then I looked at the car beside us in traffic, with the woman in the passenger seat gazing dispassionately out at him - not a smile cracked! What's wrong with you woman? I mean, even if she'd had a tragedy, surely he'd bring a hand to her heart, a tear to her eye? Adore my child, dammit!
Actually, I know that's not quite fair, and the tragedy thing has only just occurred to me ... but for the dramatic purposes of the post, let's just run with the idea that she was child hater with a heart of stone, alright?
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I think I must be a child hater with a heart of stone. Before I wanted children, I never really gazed adoringly at other people's children (family excepted), and now I rarely do. Only the very cutest ones make me smile. And only if I'm in the right mood.
Shame on you!
:)
In fairness, I was annoyingly, obnoxiously ridiculous.
The woman in the car was probably me.
;-)
It wasn't me. I would have been melting. I'm one of THOSE who will someday probably have my hands removed by the parent of some baby or child I just cannot resist patting. And I don't even have functioning ovaries anymore.
Well, you and I are of an ilk, Ms M. While Janine, here, is of course, a gorgon :)
I have on more than one occasion already eyeballed individuals who have peeked at my daughter while out and about and have NOT stopped me to announce how gorgeous she is.
The sheer neck of some fuckers.
Heh. Yep.
Us breeders, eh?
He sounds irresistable.
I don't oogle much, but would have for sure for your boy.
:)
Ah, he's very ooglable.
Gorgon ... yeah, I like that!
:-)
Thank god it's hard to offend a graverobber!
I'm with Xbox in that I cannot fathom how anyone in the world would not find my own children adorable. Because they really are the cutest around.
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