atypical

I'm not your normal mother-of-the-bride

(I'm not your normal 'anything' - but that's not the point)
~

I've always known it

but I realized it anew

as I was sitting on the bed

reading

How To Have A Big Wedding On A Small Budget

(recommended to me by my new friend Meredith)

while playing with

and doing math
with
who was having brain farts

and acting as though he'd never done division before in his life
(he did beautifully on the second set of problems, though!)

while

and

climbed all over all of us