Dear Dallas Mom,
You there, the one who feels like she can’t keep up. You’re busy, busy. You schedule classes for your 14 month old. You work all day- either at home or not at home- and collapse after your kids are in bed. You think about “stuff” a whole lot more than you intend to, cause you live in Dallas. There’s stuff and money all around you. It’s maddening.
Sure we know that a lot of things about Dallas are fabulous. Did you know a lot of things about Dallas are so very challenging? Did you know that a lot of people outside of Dallas think we are all sorta crazy?
Private vs public school debates do not typically occur in a child’s first year of life. One does not usually drove 20 miles to a large lake in the middle of town to go jog 9.2 miles all the way around the loop. $2.7 billion on a highway project? Highly unusual. The Galleria almost only exists because of the moms that crowd into the sauna of a playplace.
Yes, our sweet babies say “y’all” and talk with a twinge of a drawl. But remove yourself from the location long enough to realize what’s real and what’s not real. Stop scoping out other moms. Be honest with each other. When you see the shrieking kid at the park, it’s probably less about her crazy parents and more about it being 102 all day and naptime.
Choose to rise above the “typical” Dallas scenario. Stay out of Northpark if you have issues with comparison. Try every taco joint in town, they are all different. Look for people different than you. Engage. Connect.
And avoid 635 like the plague.
PS- I shamelessly lifted this idea from one of my favorite blogs
I’ll add that apparently it is not normal in other cities to be looked at like you have the plague if you go out of the house without makeup. Yep, apparently that is just Dallas. So ladies, let’s stop doing that!