Most "Say What?! Wednesday" posts are about cute / funny / incredible things our kiddos have said. I have a ton of those these days...but I'm going to share a couple of the crazier things that have been said to me lately...
My guess is that most parents of multiples experience some pretty random comments on a weekly basis. I personally have gotten a lot of "What did you name them?" questions lately. I can only imagine that folks are sorely disappointed to not hear a Bonnie / Connie-type rhyming duo.
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I thought I'd heard them all, until we had a gentleman in the house a couple of weeks ago, installing some new shades. He saw the girls in the den and asked if they were twins. Then he followed it up with, "Are they adopted?"
Wha???
I cannot begin to ever imagine asking that of someone! I was stunned!!! And then I had to fumble for an answer..."No, I gave birth to them two and a half years ago," I managed to say. How bizarre!!!
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I was on the phone yesterday, answering a series of questions, one of which was my occupation. "I stay at home with my children."
"Oh, so you're a housewife," the woman rephrased for me.
Not usually at a loss for words, I was again taken aback. Does that sound a little 1950-esque to anyone else???
[And then I looked around for a hidden camera...perhaps she somehow saw me vacuuming in my pearls and heels...]
"That's a rather outdated term," I told the lady (who surely really cared about my feelings).
What is the going term these days?
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Ah, well...at least I can count on the comments of random strangers for some random entertainment!
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