I spent this last week in Las Vegas for the International Beauty Show with one of the girls from my salon. I am by no means "old" but being out with her made me realize I am a total mom! Kerri is 23, single, independent. I am 25, married, and a mom of two. I spent this entire time "momming" her, and here are (in no particular order) the top 10 things that make you realize you're a mom in Vegas.
10. In traffic, when you have to slam on your breaks, you put your arm across her to try and save her in an accident.
As if your arm has some magic power or something.
9. While you're walking down the strip and random boys are yelling things at you, you tell her to keep walking and don't talk to strangers.
8. After eating a very messy cupcake from Sprinkles, she has frosting and crumbs stuck in her lipstick, so you get a napkin and start wiping her face for her.
7. When she asks you if you want to go to a club the night before we have important events to attend, you tell her she needs to be in bed at a decent time so she isn't crabby in the morning.
6. When she is texting and walking and doesn't realize the crosswalk sign has suddenly changed to the bright red hand, you stop her.
She keeps walking, so you grab her arm and pull her back before she steps off the curb to her death.
5. When you see a girl walking anywhere in Vegas scantly clad, you tell her that if she were your child she'd never be let out of the house wearing that.
Or when she asks you if her butt is hanging out of romper and asks you if she should change.
4. When you're eating dinner and the pizza comes, the waitress tells you it is super hot and to give it a minute.
She goes for it anyway and burns her tongue and you tell her she should have waited and that wouldn't have happened.
3. When you're on the strip for five minutes and a man approaches you calling you "snow bunnies" and invites you to meet young joc, you refuse.
You'd have to miss out on responsibilities, so you have to remind her about priorities.
2. When you are on Fremont Street and there are people dressed up in all sorts of crazy things, you tell her that she can't take pictures with or of them because they are doing that for money and nothing is free.
1. When you warn her that you're no longer in Idaho and that pick-pocketing and roofies happen.
Be careful of your valuables and not to invite strangers into the car or wear your purse where someone could take something from it.
