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We get to choose
Mommy’s Weird
By Kyla Cornish
When I was growing up I didn’t get to choose my friends. It was a hindrance and a blessing.
It was a hindrance because of exactly what I said.
I am so literal.
There was such a small pool of kids that you pretty much had to hang out with everyone. I would also say that growing up in a small town made bullying pretty rampant. You were popular or you weren’t. There really wasn’t much of an in between in a town of 238 people.
It was a blessing because all of those women are my friends today. They were forced into it and for that I am so lucky. My elementary, my high school and my college friends are all still in my life. When I see them it goes right back to the last time we saw each other. There is no bad blood.
Basically because I am not a “bad blood” kind of girl.
Okay. That is not entirely true.
You do me wrong, I will remember. You lie to me, I will remember. You bluff me, I will remember.
I would be a great Soprano.
Like on the TV show, not the singer…
Could you imagine what it must be like to be one of those people who keep a huge track record of who has ‘wronged them.’ Or that they have ‘wronged’ so many people that they have totally forgotten? How do they sleep at night? Icky.
Anywho…
Now, I get to choose my friendships.
Today, as an adult, I get to choose who is worthy of my time.
And that is also a hindrance and a blessing.
It was easier not having a choice. You just had to be friends with such and such because she was the only other girl living in town. Oddly it usually worked out pretty damn well.
Today, I do enjoy having a choice.
I like spending my time with those I want to spend time with.
And it’s working out perfectly.
So you, yeah you, you big jerk, take off, eh.
– Kyla Cornish is a “retired” radio Dj adjusting to being a Momma of two children. Main problems? Lack of sex, sleep sanity and an addiction to saucy chicken wings. Kyla has been published in a series of funny blogger ebooks, “Life Well Blogged.” She has also been recognized as one of the Top 25 Funny Moms in Canada and US by Circle of Moms. Then she was kicked out of that contest for cheating. She also won a baking competition when she was 11 at a 4-H Rally. Find Kyla here: http://www.mommysweird.com and follow on twitter @mommyisweird
