Picture 357: Like Mother Like Daughter

I think there are two types of women out there...ones that want to grow up and be just like their mom and ones that want to be nothing like their mom. I would be in the category of not wanting to be like my mom.  However, I believe,  we don't have too much control over if we end up or don't end up like our mothers in certain aspects of our life.  I remember being a kid and going a trip to someplace (we went to many places, so I don't remember what place exactly) and my mom would start talking about some obscure fact.  It was so obscure that you wouldn't ask "how" did she know that, but "why" did she know that.  We would just look at each other and laugh.

Well last year during Eric's deployment, I was in a bible study with a bunch of other women. There would be questions that would come up...where do I go to get this accomplished...why does it take this to do that...how are you supposed to do this...who would I talk to, to figure this out...you get the picture.  For some reason I had an answer to almost everything...and not just some know-it-all answer, a real answer.  I would wonder "how" I knew that.  I believe the other women were thinking "why"  I knew that.   Seeing a trend??

They started calling me "Carriepedia". Even now, I get people coming to me asking me a question.  A recent example was...I want to take some pictures of my kids, but I don't want it to be traditional; a little funky, but  not too funky...have any ideas?? I will give them an answer, and the reply given is "That's why I asked you, cause I knew you would know" or "I knew you would be able to help me"

So it finally hit me, though I didn't want to grow up to be just like my mom, I do enjoy having this gift of knowing strange things. Sometimes those strange things involve ideas.  So, when I was dropping Matt off at school today, I saw this sign, and thought of my Carriepedia days, and my mom!