So Embarassing

It's official, I'm the parent that embarasses her child.  I was hoping to avoid this situation until middle school but it hit Jay in 3rd grade and he's really tuned it up a notch in 4th grade.  Last December after I attended Jay's 3rd grade christmas party he told me I embarassed him and basically said he'd appreciate it if I stopped showing up at school.  Ouch right?  I must admit his words stung and I had a pity party for myself for about a week but trust me, I'm way over it now.......hence me blogging about it. I remember sharing this story with my former boss, Jill, who also has two boys.  She told me she remembered when her son told her the same thing and she acknowledged the first time you hear the words they hurt but she also told me you quickly develop a "thick" skin and get it over.  Plus at the time it was  nice to hear I'm not the only parent who has heard those words from her children.  After this happened I had a conversation with Jay about his hurtful words and how I accept him and his introverted ways and he needed to accept me and my extroverted ways.  He apolgized and I promised I would "tone it down."  Fast forward to this school year.  Jay hasn't been as vocal about me "embarassing" him but he's made it clear he can do without his mother at school.  But Nick is in the picture now.  Jay and Nick are in the same school all day long.  I don't want to say Nick is a mini-me but he kind of is both in looks and personality so technically Jay sort of has his mother at school now all the time, just in a smaller version (hee, hee) and he' made it quite clear that Nick embarasses him too!  I'm just waiting for Jay to really get charged up - at which point I'll break out my giraffe costume (my halloween costume from last year) and walk the boys into school one day in all my giraffe glory.  Nick will think it's the bomb, Jay not so much.