I am a Mommy

Okay - just a quick post because the night is winnowing away (correct usage??) and I'm lazy...

This week I have become a mommy. One of my classes - I am their only foreign teacher and they've become quite attached to me - and me to them, I'll admit. I teach them twice a day MWF and once on T/Th.. anyways, any time I see them in the hall they yell "Hilary Teacher!" and run over and hug me, wave or smile. When they walk past my class and they see me through the window, I hear them yelling my name - when I'm not teaching them, they try and kidnap me into their class.. (they're about 5 or 6 years old)... anyways one little girl always wants to hang off of me.. she was hugging me the other day, and called me "Oma" (which means mom in Korean) then all the others started chanting "oma, oma oma...". The next day I was handing out some stuff and this little guy, Peter, goes "Thank you, Mommy." Ahh good times...

And in one of my older afternoon classes, one of my students who I've taught for almost 5 months now called me Mom today! Weird!!

So I think I am officially a "Mom." Now I just need to get a minivan and some mom jeans.