Kris Kross will make you...

Until I worked with an intern this summer, I never realized how "generational" I am.  She loved to point out our generational differences.  She has gone back to school, but she left a generational impact on me.  I notice the differences between age groups a little bit more.

One example is the guy who sits across from me at work.  He is about 10 years younger than I am and generally that doesn't make much of a generational impact.  He gets most of my references.  One reference he didn't get was a reference to Kris Kross.  I asked a friend who is about 10 years older than I am, and she was also not familiar with Kris Kross.  In both cases, I tried to explain to them that Kris Kross is a child rap duo from back in the day.  Both kids were named Kris and they rapped about Mack Daddy and Daddy Mack.  At this point both people started to look at me like I was a little crazy.  When I explained that the kids also wore their clothes backwards, I started to agree that this was a weird thing to reference.

When I mentioned Kris Kross to coworkers with in a 5 year age range of myself, each person started rapping different lines from the song.

As a parent, it is my job to pass on my generational references to my children so that they can talk to adults.  I have not passed on references to Kris Kross yet, but some parents in my area are doing a much better job of it. 

Yesterday I chaperoned a field trip to the Leslie Science center.  It was a lovely field trip and overall a success.  However, before we left I was given one task and I think I messed it up.  I had to take a group of 4 kids to the bathroom that was down the hall.  There were three energetic girls and one very calm boy.  The girls went into the bathroom and I could hear them talking and yelling the whole time.  As we walked back to the class, they were still being a little rowdy and the teacher nabbed up two of them and made them go with her.  As I looked at the girl left with me, I realized her pants were on backwards.  These were not flowy pants or sweat pants that could be easily turned around.  They were skinny jeans that were tucked into her super high top sneakers with purple sparkles.  They were on backwards, the fly was undone, and the button was buttoned.  How did she do this?  At first I thought she must have done it in the bathroom, but there was no way she could have gotten her pants and purple glittery shoes totally off and back on and buttoned up backwards.  I think she came to school like that.  Once I figured it out, I told the little girl, but she did not seem to mind.  Her pants were sagging in the back the rest of the field trip.  I guess that is what happens when you wear tight pants backwards.  Her baggy underpants were hanging out the whole time.  I can only assume that the girl's parents were trying to teach her about Kris Kross.  The best way to teach a kid is to have them experience something for themselves, and I think this is what was going on yesterday.

What do you think I should put on my list of important pop culture tidbits to make sure my kids know?

This one is a fashion blog - I might be out of control

I have heard a lot about outfits that moms wear when they drop off their kids.  I always find it funny, but it never really meant anything to my life.  I have only dropped off my son at school on the first day.  I knew I was going to do it and I planned an outfit that looked very put together so I would impress the teacher and the other moms.  OK, I didn't impress them, but I looked like a normal adult and I looked like a respectable mom.  Usually my husband takes Chazzy Chazz to school.

Today I worked from home because the sweet little Dessy Dess was sick through the night.  Working from home causes interesting outfit choices.  Probably no one is going to see you, so you don't want to waste any of your good work clothes.  I decided to go with a shirt I just recently purchased online.  I am trying to figure out if I like the fit and whether or not it is work appropriate.  Then I realized that all my pants were in the laundry.  I did manage to find my tye dye flowy pants.  Turns out, these two go together perfectly.

My presence this morning seemed to slow down the rest of the family.  The hubby didn't think that he could get Chazzy Chazz to school on time so he asked me to take him.  I agreed, then looked at my outfit.  The selected outfit is not the kind of thing you wear when you are trying to look like a normal adult/mom.  Since I have heard all the stories about dropping kids off at school, I figured I could just stay in the car.

 

No.  I couldn't stay in the car.  The boy is spoiled rotten and his dad walks him into the building, so he wanted me to do the same thing.  Not only that, but we were 10 minutes early and he wanted to get out of the car and wait at the door to the school.  I did it.  While I was waiting, I figured if I was going to look like crazy mom, I might as well embrace it.  Chazzy chazz found some stepping stones and we turned them into a game of hopscotch and he and I took turns hopping back and forth on them.

It made me remember that I am crazy mom.  I have to dress almost normal for work.  It has gradually steered me towards dressing more and more normally in my every day life (well, relatively normal) because no one wants to have two full wardrobes. After I got over the original nervousness of looking crazy in front of the principal, I felt so free.  I still don't think I can wear the tye dye pants to work, but I think the shirt might make it now.

btw, I had to take the picture standing on the toilet to really make my point.  I am sorry it is a bathroom selfie, but I couldn't think of another way to share my awesome look.