After Noah was born, watching this commercial was my first realization that my emotions would never be the same as pre-motherhood. You may have thought this a sweet clip or you might have even teared up. But raise your hand if you bawled like I did the first ten times this came on your tube. I'm talking full-on ugly cry. This coming from the girl that did NOT cry during E.T. and wore that as a badge of honor around elementary school. The same teen-ager who was inexplicably mortified walking out of the theatre with her blotchy-faced mom after every semi-sap-filled flick. No longer are the days that I can tease my since-college BFFs, Christy and Adi for their overflowing, overactive tear ducts (I betcha an entire box of kleenex that they would have wept over this clip in their pre-mommy years). I now, too, possess the ability to cry desperately over a child's illness or the viewing of an Arby's ad.
Just peeking at these photos makes me search for my aloe-vera soaked tissue:
Connor's 5-month pic:
Two-part pride: The "put 'im on a cracker and eat 'im face" AND Noah's photography skills:
In this portrait, just the pure shininess of my face makes me weep (also the wedding we were attending of Karen & Kevin, former youth groupers, now full-fledged marrying age, in-love adults):
6 comments:
Y'all look hot.
Was that in July? b/c it was hot in july and seth is in a suit.
And crying during commercials is for girls...
Yes. I remember those days when you didn't cry. I think Christy and Adi have worn off on you.
LOVE these pictures...all your lil guys are so, so, so cute! And, the one w/you and Conner is adorable and that vulcan grip hand you have on him is totally cracking me up! He looks like he must be trying to wiggle out of your clutches there! Love it.
Jenni~I love love love all the pics! Thank you so much for sharing them! You and Seth look fabulous too! And about the crying~ I've always been bad, but it's worse after you have kiddos! Have a great day!
Luv you!
Angie
Dana, I never even NOTICED the "vulcan grip" until I read your comment. YIKES...it looks reminiscent of the Wicked Witch's hand! No, he wasn't wiggling, just his crazy mommy's veiny, Elphaba hand:>!
You're a supermodel. Shut up.
For some reason my computer is against me seeing video clips at the moment, so that spared me a runny nose. I cannot BELIEVE how much more I cry now as a mommy. I keep trying to blame it on the fact that got the breast feeing hormones, or will soon have the breast feeding hormones, or have ever had the breast feeding hormones ....
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