Mom!.........
I've heard those words many times during the last 29 years of having two daughters. the word "mom" can be said in a variety of ways - whining, frustration, angry, imploring - but the way it was said to me on my way back to Denver airport was completely different.
Haylee and I were traveling back from the Vail valley to the Denver airport to return to our homes in Michigan and Texas. On this particular day, the weather was not cooperating with us.
Wishing for a bright, sunny, warm day to travel through the mountain passes, we instead received, snow and icy conditions. My windshield wiper on the driver's side was only half there, so it made visibility very difficult at some points.
At any rate, I remained calm and pretty lighthearted not wanting to become the tense, anxious traveling mom. Haylee even said I did well - not using the word "mom!"at all until.....
I was discussing with her that I had read the car manual while waiting in the cell phone lot for 45 minutes to retrieve her from the Denver airport the week prior.
I was confidently relaying to her what the dashboard buttons were all about and the buttons on the steering wheel were meant to be used for when I looked to my right and saw some words within the enclosed dashboard area that read "passengers ahead".
Are you serious? "Passengers Ahead?". I know that. I can see them right in front of me. Is this car wired to tell me that there are passengers ahead? Am I stupid? Is this car smarter than I am?
Being the feisty person that I am, I spoke out to Haylee - "can you believe this car is telling me that there are passengers ahead?" "Where is that?", Haylee replied. "Right there on the dashboard" I said. And then the word, spoken to me in a very different voice that now implied to me that I didn't know much and now my daughter knows so much more than me after 26 years of living.
"Mom......can't you see that it reads "passenger airbag?" "No way"! I laughingly replied. "These glasses are not doing what they're supposed to do".
It seems I've become the child and my girls have become the adults. I hear the "mom" word spoken as if they know more than me. Is that possible?
