Mommy’s Weird

By Kyla Cornish

As I was putting the groceries into the car, Whirlwind was buckling herself up (Praise Jesus for booster seats!) when she announced, “I want to go to space.”

“Cool.” I answered. ” Maybe when you are older you can.”

“I don’t have a space ship,” she said.

Good point. Now this is the moment where I do some quick thinking.

Or over-thinking. I do that a lot. Lately, It feels like every moment is a teaching moment. Should I tell her that she is probably never going to own a space ship? Probably not. So, I should encourage her… right?

“Well when you are big you can buy one.” I suggested.

She looked at me like I was from another planet. Possibly a planet she was going to visit one day. Then she started to raise her little voice. Seriously, I am sure the entire parking lot could hear her scream at me.

” NO. NO. NO. NO. THERE ARE NO SPACE SHIP STORES!”

Shocked at her defiance and not just by her desire to go to space and own her own space ship, I quieted her down with the old stand by, “You can ask your Dad when we get home. Did you want a sucker?”

Then off we went.

And not in a space ship.

– 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: https://www.mommysweird.com and follow on twitter @mommyisweird

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