{"id":129,"date":"2011-05-02T12:14:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T16:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2011-05-02T12:14:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T16:14:06","slug":"the-uncool-side-of-island-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"The Uncool Side of Island Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Recently, on the spur of the moment, I purchased a pair of Hello Kitty pajama pants. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never worn anything like them before, but, I have a preschool daughter who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heavily-vested in the world of Hello Kitty, I needed a new pair of comfy around-the-house pants, and I had two minutes to shop. Hence the impulsive, atypical purchase. On the way home, I patted myself on the back for being a fun mother, even a mother to remember fondly some day.<\/p>\n

When my daughter first saw me wearing them that next Saturday morning, her eyes lit up and she followed me around for a while, counting the Kitties.<\/p>\n

My middle child just laughed his goofy laugh when he saw me.<\/p>\n

What I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t account for was my eldest, heavily-vested in the world of second grade, the grade of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no more character backpacks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so not<\/strong> a first grader anymore.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He took one look at me and made a face. It was not a benign face.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What (emphasis on what) are you wearing, Mom?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Apparently a big, giant fashion faux pas, according to the biggest small person in my house who, incidentally, still doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand the concept of matching when it comes to his own attire.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pajamas,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I answered, apprehensive.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got Hello Kitty on them,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said, his face contorting even further.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wrong with wearing Hello Kitty PJs?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I retorted.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a mom,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he stated, the meaning obvious.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153So?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I responded with profundity.<\/p>\n

Pause. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ever wear those in public.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Obviously, he felt the need to be painfully clear since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not normally in the habit of leaving the house in my sleepwear.<\/p>\n

So then.<\/p>\n

Later that evening, my husband, in a bout of sympathy, raised his eyebrows dramatically when I donned the scorned attire again and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hello, Mama!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d While I appreciated his support, that just felt kind of weird.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m left with the question of whether to wear or not to wear the Hello Kitty pants. Frankly, in the end, I think it will come down to the fact that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got entirely too much Scottish in me to get rid of a perfectly good albeit controversial pair of pants. This will no doubt solidify my \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so not<\/strong> cool\u00e2\u20ac\u009d status. Oh, well. You can only fight the forces of nature for so long anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, on the spur of the moment, I purchased a pair of Hello Kitty pajama pants. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never worn anything like them before, but, I have a preschool daughter who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heavily-vested in the world of Hello Kitty, I needed a new pair of comfy around-the-house pants, and I had two minutes to shop. Hence the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-parenting","tag-uncool-moms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}