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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Sometimes I feel like a fraud
When I take the kids that I nanny for (boy almost 2 and girl almost 4) places, people assume that they are my children unless I tell them otherwise. It often not worth mentioning unless it's people we or I see regularly. Those times when it's not worth mention, I feel like I'm lying to people when they ask questions about the kids, like how old they are, and assume I'm their mom. After the tire incident Saturday, I had to take the little boy with me to buy a new tire while the girl was at VBS. The tire guy asked how old he was and told me about his 2-year-old. When I was picking the little girl up from VBS, I was think about how I'm the hidden infertile, who everyone would assume was a mom and how everyone else there (even the grandparents) had had children (or at least adopted). It's weird being an infertile who takes care of children all day.
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i totally know what you mean! i had my best friend's car seat for about week in my car and i kept on thinking, "if someone were to walk by my car they would think that i was a mom too!"
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it'll happen for us too, we just have to be patient.
I think that might give me a real identity crisis. I really admire your ability to be kind and loving to someone else's children when you really want one of your own. I'm not sure I could do it.
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