This morning as Future Bam was putting on his clothes and getting ready for school he told me that kids in his class thought I was his sister. He then asked me a question I knew he would eventually ask since being around other people forced him to notice that, yes, I am different than most of the other moms. . If you, dear readers, are wondering just exactly how different I am then his next question will answer that. He asked me why I was so much smaller than the other moms. He said a few things that I thought were funny too. He said, “Didn’t you eat much when you were growing up?” “Is that why you couldn’t grow taller?”. He also said something that many people may not think of as nice but coming out of the mouth of a 6 year old it’s all he knows and all he has to compare me to. He asked why all the mommies looked like grandmas.

Before school he would have never realized this or even thought of me as different and now he sees me as so different than all the other moms and he wonders why I’m not like them. This is something I have had to deal with my entire life so it’s easy for me to shrug it off even though I still deal with it almost everyday. I’ve also talked about it at length here on this blog. It’s also why I named the blog Petite Mommy.

I talked to FB about how everybody is different and we all come in different shapes in sizes. And that although there may not be other mommies that he knows who is as small as me at his school there are mommies like me out there. Have any of you out there experienced anything similar? Did your children think you were different than the other mamas?