oh lord.

the first time i looked at a 4-generation pic of me, my daughter, mom, and grandma, we were lined up in age order...

and all three of us were holding our purses in the crook of our arm, kinda like Bea Arthurs Ma did on Golden girls? yep. i have turned into my mom and grandma! is anything sadder at the age of 26?? lmao!

This just made me laugh so hard at the visual image in my head.


As for me, I realized I was turning into my mom when I freaked out when Mike & I were cooking. He was doing things all wrong (at least in my book) and I started lecturing him about cooking. Midway, I stopped and looked at him and realized he was trying not to laugh. He said I was doing exactly what my mom does to everyone who tries to help her in the kitchen. I could have cried when I realized that she has indeed rubbed off on me.

LOL same here!

me and my mother look a LOT alike and it would bug me for ages. it still does. i wear contacts vs. glasses and an afro vs a short haircut (like mom does). so we have SOME variance, but chances are you'd still know we were related.

among other things, i realized that when i button my pants, i look at the ceiling. and it bothered the hell out of me when i realized i did it. also, my mom eats her sandwiches in a circular pattern (leaving the middle for last) and i do it too.

our phone manners are the same - its weird.

I sound so much like my mom on the phone my grandmother can't figure out the difference. I also carry my purse by the handles instead of on my shoulder, just like mom. While I don't look like either of my parents, I'm a spitting image of half my cousins.

My father has never mistaken me for my mother - I have her eyes but his hair, so she and I look "different enough". But my mother-in-law mixes up her husband with mine (their only child) all the time. She frequently says, "Jim, Tom, whatever your name is!" (names changed to protect the innocent)

i've had people who knew my mom when she was younger swear i look like her.

i know that i behave a lot like my mom, we think the same way about a lot of things. but what scares me most is how academically, i've turned into both of my parents but WITHOUT them pressuring me in any way, shape or form. it's the most bizzare thing ever and i have no real explanation for it. suffice to say though, that both of my majors are exactly what my parents did (social studies for one parent, french for the other) :P

but i'm ok with it, my mom is an awesomely cool person most of the time. my kids will be lucky if i end up half as relaxed as my parents (really, so chilled out they barely even gave me cause to rebel. pierced my bellybutton? not thrilled but came around. came home drunk in hs? no reaction. hungover off my @$$ on new years day? handed me a zantac).