Wrod. I've taken to sleeping in the tub or in the papasan. The tub is a little better because a) buoyancy and b) no cat, but I worry about sliding under the water. Which I shouldn't, because I'm pretty well wedged in there. But I do recommend at least a lukewarm soak to help with the sleeping.

I don't actually sleep in the tub, but I do like it for ache relief. Sadly, it's just deep enough that I can't really get out of it by myself, so I can't take baths when home alone.

Raquel, what's your due date? I can't recall.

When I was nannying (at 21/22) it was assumed a couple of times that I was mother to the kids. Including one 11 year old who looked...11. Really didn't know how to take that.

Go you! You totally rock, msbelle.

Me, I've got nuthin'. though I have stuff to do. But I am uninspired.

Fun and games with confused people....

1) I had someone yell "LESBOS!" out of a truck when I was kissing my mom good bye on the street, when I was in high school.

2) I've gotten what I call "sad face" from way too many strangers while babysitting when I was a teenager. Dude. You never heard of babysitting?

3) One time, out to dinner with a family friend (parents' age), I could totally tell that people at nearby tables were trying to figure out what the deal was. It made me laugh.

I (20/21) was assumed to be the mother of the children (18 months - 2.5 years) I was nannying all the time, makes sense, but I only got dirty looks while out in the Hamptons and I think taht had more to do with my unstylish dress than my age.

Weirder was people assuming that at 19/20 I was the mother of the 12 year old African American girl that I was a Big Sister for through Big Brother/Big Sister. She found that HI-larious.

I find that HI-larious too, msbelle.

People are strange.

My nephews were often assumed to be my kids when I was out alone with them, which was only a little weird, because I looked older than I was. But I was always quick to correct any assumptions. I think I was only 15 when the oldest one was born.

But my sister, who is 11 years older than I am, looks a lot younger than she is. People just don't know what to make of us. When she was getting married and we went looking for dresses and such, more than half the time, people thought I was the bride-to-be. I was fourteen (or, geez, maybe thirteen? They were married a while before the first kid was born) and not trying for older. Then I was all flattered. Now, I'm just... yech.

When a friend of mine was about 16, she would sometimes take her one year old brother out - she got a lot of dirty looks from people who assumed he was her son.

This kind of thing used to happen to all but my next oldest sister (4 out of 5) who were all old enough for me to have been theirs. At least with the college age ones they didn't get dirty looks.

People are strange.

Oh yeah.

3) One time, out to dinner with a family friend (parents' age), I could totally tell that people at nearby tables were trying to figure out what the deal was. It made me laugh.

I've had that happen too. Except the friend is actually about 10 years older than my parents. The reactions only skeeved us once, and that was when we went out to dinner at a really hoity-toity place when I was studying in Prague. Some people didn't even try to hide what they were presuming.

At around 14 or 15, looking even younger, when taking both my youngest siblings (4-5 years old, at the time) to the movies, I was assumed to be their mother.

My friend B was assumed to be the mother of a mutual friend's daughter, apparently only because they were both blond. When asked "who does she look alike?" regarding the toddler, B calmly answered "my friend's husband" (and it was indeed the truth, too).

[Edit: 8-5=7-4]