Sarcasm and taunting is a reality in my family. While it’s all done in fun, and with love, sometimes it’s a bit disconcerting to outsiders.
When my daughter was elementary school age, I was the typical homeroom mom. A regular visitor at her school, teachers and admins knew me, and her classmates recognized me.
Even though our parent/child relationship was obvious, due to a fear of “mommy-embarrassing-me” possibilities, I did attempt to keep our conversations outside her classroom to a minimum.
I wasn’t always successful.
During a Spring book fair at her school when my daughter was about 10, I was perusing the books with her and one of her friends. For some reason, we fell into our usual sniping and mockery. After making her selection, and me paying for her purchase – and here is where my memory is sketchy – I said something snarky to her, and she replied with a “your mom is…” Without missing a beat, I responded with an emphatic, “your mom’s a FREAK!”
The hilarity of that was instantaneous and we both dissolved into hysterics. I was literally crying I was laughing so hard.
My daughter’s friend was speechless, totally horrified that I just called myself a freak. This made us laugh that much harder.
My daughter is now almost 24, and we still laugh about this. And, I still tell her that her mom is a freak.
Thin spiral notebook 
And at the same time you taught her that it was okay to be different. Good job momma.
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Those instant moments of mother to daughter connections are great. Forget anyone who thinks they’re moments of freakishness.
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ha! What a great bonding moment (:
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I love that you have that special relationship with your daughter.
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Fun story! How cool that you both can still laugh about it all these years later 🙂
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Cute Story , Its fun to share those jokes with your mom , that nobody gets except but her .::)
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I love the story.
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Endearing story and am so happy you’ve had enduring mother/daughter love. Not always a given in my world. I do have one memory of my mom and I laughing so hard she had to pull the car off to the side of the road. I still have that. Thank you for the reminder.
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Ah, that is so cute. I hope my daughter calls me a freak and we can have along running inside joke like this!
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I miss this. We get it going sometimes in our family, in fact, last night my oldest stepson and my daughter were trading insults with each other, then ganged up on their unsuspecting brother before joining in on their dad. it was all in good fun, and I wish we had more incidences like that. There is hope in the future for my blended family.
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