So the kids got their yearbooks yesterday – and my daughter’s came home FILLED with messages to ‘HAGS’.\u00a0 (“HAGS, it was fun sitting next to you this year.”…Or…”HAGS, you’re a great friend!” etc. etc.)<\/p>\n
“OMG!\u00a0 HAVE THEY BEEN CALLING HER HAGS\u00a0ALL YEAR?!?,”\u00a0<\/em>I wondered to myself.\u00a0 How could she even POSSIBLY have gotten this nickname?!!!\u00a0 If we were voting, I’d vote her the LEAST likely to be a hag.\u00a0 (If we were voting for ME?\u00a0 That would be a whole ‘nother story.)\u00a0 But children can be soooo CRUEL!\u00a0 ‘HAGS’??\u00a0 That’s a TERRIBLE nickname!\u00a0 How did they even come up with it?!??<\/p>\n And THEN I thought, “Wait!\u00a0 Maybe it’s not HER nickname.\u00a0<\/em> OMG!\u00a0 Did she accidentally pick up\u00a0Jack\u00a0HAGAN’S yearbook?!??!<\/em>”\u00a0 (And maybe HIS nickname is ‘HAGS’ which would make way more sense.\u00a0 But he’s her arch-nemesis and it’s gonna be total death to have to trade yearbooks back with him.)<\/p>\n So, I created this whole scenario in my head about what was going on with her yearbook.\u00a0 And\u00a0I convinced myself it was totally true.<\/p>\n You know what it reminded me of?\u00a0 It reminded me of that time I lost my diamond tennis bracelet and, after searching fruitlessly for it everywhere, I convinced myself that I had accidentally EATEN it when I was eating a piece of watermelon (which was the last time I remember wearing it.\u00a0 The piece of watermelon happened to be in a watermelon margarita.\u00a0 So that may have had something to do with the super bizarre bracelet-eating scenario I came up with.\u00a0 But don’t fear.\u00a0 I eventually found the bracelet in the parking lot of the restaurant where I had been eating the watermelon.\u00a0 Suddenly the “finding the lost bracelet in the parking lot of the restaurant” version of the story made WAY more sense than the “I accidentally scarfed down seven-and-a-half inches of diamonds and gold along with my booze soaked watermelon” version.)\u00a0\u00a0Oopsie!\u00a0Tee hee hee. [nervous laughter]<\/p>\n Whatever.\u00a0 But at the time, I forgot about this tendency I have wherein I create totally fictional scenarios in my head and then CONVINCE myself that they’re absolutely true.<\/p>\n Instead –\u00a0knowing full well everyone calls\u00a0Jack ‘HAGS’ and that we have his yearbook in our possession, I approach my daughter to\u00a0break the bad news,\u00a0“Sweetie,\u00a0 I think you accidentally picked up Jack Hagan’s yearbook.”<\/p>\n She responded appropriately with a screeching, “whhhAAAAATTTTTT?!??”<\/p>\n ME: “I know, Sweetie.\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 We’ll just have to figure out how to get yours back from him.”<\/p>\n HER: [narrowing her eyes at me] “Wait.\u00a0 Mom.\u00a0 Why do you think it’s his?”<\/p>\n ME:\u00a0 [getting nervous now.\u00a0 I couldn’t possibly be WRONG here.\u00a0 This is the absolute correct and true scenario.\u00a0 I’m SURE it’s the real scenario.\u00a0\u00a0Yet why am I getting nervous tee hee hee…] “Well – all of the messages are addressed to him – HAGS.”<\/p>\n HER:\u00a0 [infusing the following with all the exasperation a 10-year-old can possibly convey to someone who is hopelessly out-of-the-loop]\u00a0 “Mom, do you even KNOW what HAGS means?!??!”<\/p>\n ME:\u00a0 “Teee heeee heeee….mmmm…it’s Jack Hagan’s nickname.\u00a0 Right???”<\/p>\n HER:\u00a0 “Uhn.\u00a0 MOM!\u00a0 It MEANS<\/em> ‘Have A Great Summer!'”<\/p>\n ME:\u00a0 “Oh, yeah.\u00a0 That makes WAY more sense.”\u00a0 [Ooopsie!\u00a0 Tee hee hee.\u00a0 Well, that’s a relief!\u00a0 Hee hee hee.\u00a0 LOL on that one!]<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n P.S. Mom,\u00a0do you\u00a0even KNOW what LOL means?!?\u00a0 Nope…not “Lots of Love.”\u00a0 Keep trying. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So the kids got their yearbooks yesterday – and my daughter’s came home FILLED with messages to ‘HAGS’.\u00a0 (“HAGS, it was fun sitting next to you this year.”…Or…”HAGS, you’re a great friend!” etc. etc.) “OMG!\u00a0 HAVE THEY BEEN CALLING HER HAGS\u00a0ALL YEAR?!?,”\u00a0I wondered to myself.\u00a0 How could she even POSSIBLY have gotten this nickname?!!!\u00a0 If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}