10.29.2012

the tale of a mole turned terrorific


There once was a girl who had a mole... A terrific mole.  A mole that rivaled cindy crawford's trademark mole! Most everyone she came into contact with liked her face enough and the girl with the terrific mole felt quite confident in her face.  after many years of living with a cute enough face, the girl with the terrific mole married a man who loved her face too and they spent 3 years looking at eachothers faces quite blissfully. in 2006 their first baby was born (sans terrific mole).  this baby girl mistook mom's terrific mole as an oddity and spent cuddling moments picking at it with a look of alarm. This same scene repeated itself with baby number two and three as well; mother giggled that her little babies obviously didn't recognize a terrific mole when they saw one.  Until one day when the children began verbalizing their thoughts about the terrific mole. "Can you get it off?"  "Do I have one?" "It feels weird!"  in addition to lots of horrified questions, there was no longer curious rubbing but rather disgust with accidental contact.  "Ew I accidentally kissed it!"  the mole became a terrorific obsession with frequent questions and disgusted statements.  there have also been renderings of the terrorific mole... and most recently there was a spontaneous impression involving hershey syrup:


what once was a terrific mole has become terrorific (to some).  that girl who made it through the cruelties of middle school without being scathed by facial insecurities still thinks it's pretty terrific! (and so does she, i'm sure:)





2 comments:

Unknown said...

I've been waiting for this post. I've always found yours much cuter than Cindy Crawford's, just for the record...

JLJ said...

Kids don't appreciate true beauty when they see it. #3 padded my self esteem this weekend by proclaiming that my legs are fat. Then hours later, "Mom, your tummy is squishy." I had to resist replying that she's no toothpick either!