The man in front of us at church introduced himself, asked about Beth-Ellen and Tirzah Mae.<\/p>\n
Yes, Beth-Ellen is a month old, Tirzah Mae is three. We’ve got another – eighteen-month-old Louis is in the nursery.<\/p>\n
“Oh you’ve been busy.” <\/p>\n
It was an innocuous sort of comment, it didn’t feel snarky at all. I was thinking of the busy life that is being the mother of three three and under when I responded.<\/p>\n
“But what a fun thing to be busy with.” <\/p>\n
The moment the words were out of my mouth, I realized how snarky they must have sounded (and how totally not polite-conversation-at-church.) <\/p>\n
But the deed was done and the musicians started singing and all I could do was contemplate what a bummer it was that the one time I managed a great comeback to a snarky comment was when a) the comment wasn’t meant snarkily and b) neither was my response. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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