Youch!

I have a confession to make, I tend to get my feelings hurt way way too easily and make mountains of mo hills. Whew...now that I got THAT off my chest. . .

I had lunch with two of my girly work friends today. One of them, let's call her Eve, announced she is 3 months pregnant with her first baby! Awesome good news! Yippee for Eve! She is a very nice person, she's 31, and will be a great Mom.

So, me and Super Mommy, who is my very bestest work friend we get along like pb&j, where gushing over her pregnancy and Eve looks pointedly at SM (Super Mommy) and says, "Okay, you are going to have to tell me EVERYTHING about being pregnant and being a Mom, since you have four kids and have done this before".

I, jokingly, said, "Hello, Eve, I'm sitting right here, I have 2 kids remember, what am I chopped liver?" SM and I start giggling because I don't know, we think I'm funny I guess.

Eve replies, "Well, yeah, but I hear everybody talking about SM like she's a awesome Mom and is just wonderful at the whole Mommy thing. I have NEVER heard anybody call YOU a super Mom".

I said, "Yeah, that's true. I'm not a super Mom. But, I am a Mom and I have been pregnant before! I can tell you lots of things, promise."

Eve just kind of smiled at me and said again to Super Mommy she had lots of questions for HER.

YOUCH. My feelings are majorly hurt, should I be offended? Or do you think that in Eve's first time motherness she just thinks the only advice that is good is if it comes from somebody who has perfected the art of mothering?

To be fair, Super Mommy really is a Super Mommy. She has 4 kids, cooks from scratch, is married but is practically a single parent because she husband works out of town, and all of her kids are in a zillion sports each, and she's very active in the community. If any of my blogging peeps can recall, I am NONE of those things. My only claim to fame is the fact that my kids are still alive and aren't in major trouble for anything yet. Chad is definitely the better parent! He is an awesome parent. He really really is. Me, not so much.

So, my question is this, do you think that your value as a parent goes down when you are bad at it? And should my feelings be hurt by Eve's remark or should I just chalk it up to being a new Mommy? Help me out here, please!

I heart Denver

Hiddy ho good neighbor, I'm back from Denver! And can I just say it was a great trip? I heart Denver. I really do. It's a very cool city. I would love to go back there someday for a vacation and see more of the sites.

It really was a very good work trip. I got to see this awesome performer at the opening ceremonies of the conference we attended. He ROCKED. Go and click around his site a little and listen to some of the clips,I'll wait. SEE! Isn't he great? He is a very good entertainer.

We also got to see this band perform one day in a open square at the World Trade Center in Denver. I know, I didn't know that Denver had a WTC either. It made me a little nervous whenever I heard a plane flying overhead. *ahem* Anyway, watching the band perform over the lunch hour was a kick and very relaxing.

We also rode the subway/monorail train thingy in Denver. That was okay, but scared the crap out of me. I felt totally like a sitting duck. I thought Mr. Incredible was going to have to give me a shot of Valium before the stupid shuttle drive got his lazy ass over to the station to pick us up. Yikes. A big tough city girl I am NOT.

Mr. Incredible was fine actually. He didn't annoy me half as much as I thought he would, so that surprised the hell out of me. He's actually a very nice man who is very kind and compassionate. I like him more now that I did before we went on this trip, and that is always a good thing.

OH, and we seen this big blue bear every day at the convention center. His feet were where Mr. Incredible and I met up every day after our classes were over. I wish I could have brought this little guy home with me, he was just so cute!

I got to go to this rockin store in the Denver Pavilion too! OHMYWORD, this was the coolest store I ever been to in my life. Not kidding. I LOVED it.

Anyway, it was a great trip. Everything here is fine. Same old same old. Getting ready for school to start back up again. Trying to figure out where we will find the money for school clothes. You know how that goes. This summer just flew by, didn't it? It will be snowing and freezing ass cold here in Quasi Montana before we know it!

Okay, how are you? What's going on in YOUR world?!