I love my mom, but sometimes...

she just has to "simmer" down. Today she did us a great favor by baby-sitting Isaac while Tina and I went to Likha practice. We brought him to practice the previous two Sundays, but he's recovering from being sick and we thought it best to leave him behind this time (that's another post in itself :) ) Anyway, trying to be helpful, momz dusted our room for us...unbeknownst to her that some little clippings on our dresser were Isaac's first nail clippings. Tina's been saving them to put into his First Year baby book. Well, we only recovered two clippings from the floor, so they'll have to do.

I told her that we know she meant well, but she shouldn't have dusted our room for us.

I know that in the big picture of it all, it was an honest mistake and even well-intentioned. So I can only get minorly irked. In fact, for me it's not even about the nail clippings but more about the privacy and boundary issues than anything else.

Being able to live at home as Tina and I start our little family has been a tremendous help. We are still grateful and appreciative of our parents' generosity. But we do want a pad of our own to call our own. Hopefully soon.

For now, we're gonna have to deal with the drawbacks of not living under our own roof. We'll just chalk this dusting incident under that column.

If anything, it adds a little flavor to the story. One day we can tell Isaac the story of why we were only able to save two of his first nail-clippings. Hmmm....if he even cares about his first nail clipplings :)