I'm a snob....

I feel like people must think I am so rude when I am at the baseball fields. People try to talk to me and I walk away while they are in mid sentence. I walk right past really good friends and family without saying a word. What can I say, I am a mom. A mom who has a very active almost 3 year old. He thinks he is big enough to play off to the side unattended and big enough to run off and find his older brother. I always have my eye on him because I have learned from past experience that if you take your eye off of him for a second he will be on another fields bleachers entertaining that crowd! He walks up to the concession stand and asks for bubble gum (he doesn't even like bubble gum), he wonders off to pet a puppy he sees off in the distance all without any regards as to my whereabouts. I know where he is though. That is why I can't look you in the eye when you talk to me or I walk right past you without speaking, not because I don't want to talk, but because my child is wondering off. Don't be offended if I spank him either, that is the ONLY way I seem to get any kind of fear in him to stay with me. He will be grown someday and then I can chat for hours and I am sure I will wish he was running off to get gum at the concession stand instead of wooing a girl sitting in the bleachers! I tell myself this soon shall pass, because it will. I love you sweet E even though you wear me out!

Here's to the day you are finally in the field and mommy is cheering you on from the bleachers!

Picture by Shannon Walker