Mom Club.

I think that I have officially made my way into the Mom Club. It’s not an easy club to join. You can’t just pop out a baby and join. No, it takes effort, work and dedication. I’m in.

This is how I feel like I’m IN. On Sunday, I went to the park with Landon and Nan. Nan was helping Landon climb the fake rock wall @ Shull Park. I climbed on top of the wall and helped pull Landon up and then would put him down the slide. Well, another mom was there and she was helping her son, about the same age of Landon, climb up this wall as well. So now I’m helping Landon and this other boy and sending them both down the slide. I’m like, breaking a sweat doing this.

Side note: Monkey bars should be banned. I think they are a set up for kids to be insecure. Hate to sound mean, but do you ever see the fat kids on the monkey bars? No, just skinny minneys, and they fly on those things like their circus kids. Therefore, the fat kids are always going to feel like they can’t do what the skinny kids can.. that’s a set up for a life time of insecurity. Haha..

So back to the my park experience. So I’m juggling these kids around, and since I’m the youngest mom @ the park (which is one good thing of having a child young, your one of the only moms without wrinkles.. woop!) I’m the one climbing everything and helping these kids. Finally, I tell Landon, time to go, and we start getting his stuff packed up. As we’re leaving, TWO moms waived to me and say, “Bye, have a nice week, see you later!” SEE YOU LATER?! I have no clue who you people are or your schedules but we’re going to see each other later? Of course we will, we’re moms, we’ll be at the park again, and we’re in the Mom Club.

& What is wrong with kids at the park these days?! I mean, what the heck. It’s a dog eat dog world at the playground. Kids are throwing rocks at each other, bumping each other at the slides.. I mean at one point there had to be 5 kids going down the slide at one time. Whatever happened to lines?! Not anymore… Landon will probably never have the care-free park experience I had while growing up. Eh, we’ll just blame it on Obama.

Other ways I think I’m officially in: when you have other kids come over, and the moms say “I’m out of ____, do you have any?” When you have it, your in. Or when your in line at McDonalds and complaining about the lack of food choices for a young child (fries or an apple? Like Landon can eat the apples and caramel!) and another women chimes in and all of a sudden your talking for 15 minutes about small amount of choices.. and how to stop your child from becoming another obesity statistic.

And to tell you the truth, it is easier to have other Mom Club friends. Seriously, now I know why when I was younger my mom would call all my aunts and her friends over w/ kids. Because kids all play together. It’s nice to go to a friend’s house who has kids and know that Landon will have toys to play with there or a friend to play with (even though Landon isn’t the friendliest of all babies, we’re working on that). Or not to have to pack a suitcase of crap because I know the other Mom Club friend will have juice and crackers and stuff like that. And vice versa!

And moms are just understanding people. If I was to ditch a non-mom friend at the last second, she’d probably get mad. If it’s another mom, it’s completely cool, because at one point her life, she probably has had to too. They get it. And with another mom, you NEVER run out of stuff to talk about. Moms can talk about their kids forever… I mean forever. Oh, and politics mean so much more when you’re a mom. Because we’re not only talking about the sucky world WE are living in, but the sucky world our CHILD will be raised in. Everything is cooler in the Mom Club.

The Mom Club is always a support group. After having a child, well, your body is less than perfect. It’s nice to have friends that you can complain to and they know exactly what your saying. Can I go to my tiny non-mom friend and be like, “OMG look at my stomach. I look like a burn unit victim!” and them say.. “oh I know what your saying. Look at this…” NO! It’s nice to have someone on the same page as you.

Another way I'm in. On Friday night I'm watching Courtney's little girls, Abbey and Gracie. This is what cool moms do, watch other mom's kids. You scratch their back, they will scratch yours. When I've needed her to watch Landon, she will for me. But really, when your in the Mom Club, it's like you want to watch the other kids, you become their friend too! And we're going to do artsy fun stuff, and Tress and Logan may join in. THAT is being in the Mom Club.

But don’t get me wrong, I love my non-mom friends. Esp. on the day after Christmas and Jeannie, Owen and Landon and I go shopping at the mall with Sierra (the non-mom friend). It’s two extra hands.. it’s great! ;)

Either way, I’m in.

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”
--Agatha Christie