Every now and then I meet my mom for lunch on my hour break. I love these days, we discuss life, my church, her church, work....etc. My mom proceeds to ask me every time if I have met anyone. I meet people, but she specifically means a man. I asked if she really thought I would not mention it to her if I had met a guy and she said yes!! I promised her I don’t live a secret life and am not hiding men that are in my life from her and that I REALLY just know married people or dating couples. Then to test the waters I asked her what she would think if I dated a 40 year old? And then she started worrying that I had met a 40 year old man. My poor mother…..I definitely get my teasing from my dad. In all reality, my mom will know right away if I begin dating a guy, she’s a very important part of my life.
So having not really participated in April Fools Day for a while now; I decided to catch up and send out a text to some close friends and family that just nicely stated “I have a date tomorrow night!!!!” I got a fun variety of responses and thought some of them were worth sharing:
“Who what where when why? We need to meet this guy first. If he passes the exam you can proceed with the date” (apparently Josh has a dating application for me that guys have to pass??)
“Finally”,
“What!?!! With who!?”,
“Really?? Is this where I offend you by asking if that’s April Fools? If not, yay!”
“WOOHOO. Who’s the lucky man?”
“At the risk of sounding like a HUGE jerk…april fools? If not…DETAILS!!”
“Speechless J” Oh Dad….
“Wooohooo go Annie go!!!”
“With a boy?”
My favorite response by far was my mom’s accumulation of texts:
“With who? How exciting, is he 40?" "Where did you meet? I hope you have fun." "Do you know where you are going? So What’s he like? Does he work? What’s the bio on him?”
I carried it on longer with her than anyone else and had to profusely apologize later. She asked where he worked so I just threw out that he was a youth pastor in the area (sounded good!), and then asked what her thoughts were on a specific denomination. Unfortunately the denomination I mentioned only has one church in the area…..so I received a text asking what his name was and saying that if he was the one on the website then he was cute!.... "Sure, that's him".... OOPS! I then received a text from my dad saying that my mom had called twice to ask about this denomination’s theology, and I received a text from my older sister saying that my mom had called her and showed her the website with his picture. Backfired a little bit.
Honestly, I love my mom, and if a guy came into my life that I was interested in and dating she would be one of the first people to know. She would also probably have to sit through a few phone conversations of me giving her his “bio” before anything ever really developed, because I would WANT to tell her about him. I know she only asks because she loves me and is interested in my life.
I don’t think I’ll participate in April Fools Day anymore.....this one will probably have been my last...and now if I did have a real date I don't think she'd believe me. :)
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