Are you an emotional mom?

It's been a really long, complicated school year, and now that it's over, it's all catching up to me and I cry at the drop of a hat. Emotional mess over here.

In the car ride over to skate today with the 5th grade class we were talking about the thunderstorm they had to run through back in kindergarten after getting ice cream. The kids in the car remembered that I was one of the moms there. That made me tear up because that seemed like it happened just yesterday and and now it's been 6 years. 

Definitely.  I hope I don't cry when we leave our beloved Montessori school tomorrow.

My girls get mad at me because I am not an emotional mom.  J is even wondering if I'll cry at her wedding (I most likely will).  I did cry when they made their first Communions, not sure why, but I didn't cry when they went off to Kindergarten or for the Mother's Day tea programs they had, etc.  I wish I could, but it just isn't in me.

I'm an emotional person in general, so I am probably an emotional mom too.  Haven't really had much to be emotional about being a mom lately, other than the kids driving me crazy.  I am sure when my kids start school I will be an emotional wreck.
 

I'm even keeled. I'm not emotional in general, so I'm not emotional as a Mom. I think if you're an emotional person then you are an emotional Mom. You are who you are.

 

I can't imagine being overwhelmed with emotion all the time...nothing would ever get done! lol

I'm definitely an emotional mom, but I'm not "overwhelmed" with emotion so much that it interferes with my life. I did cry TONS when I started taking my kids to Mother's Day Out and preschool. When my DD started kindergarten (I've talked about this many times before here) I would walk her to her classroom , go through a drive though, get a diet coke, and then drive around drinking it and crying. When they finally made us stop walking them to their rooms and just dropping them off at the front door, then I cried because I just KNEW she couldn't find her way 20 steps down the hall to the first door. She graduated college a few week ago and I cried as soon as they showed on an overhead large screen the procession across campus (a tradition they do) and all the kids marching.

momof2boys.....at DD's last HS orchestra concert I overheard my DH telling people he didn't think I'd be able to get through it. Orchestra had been SUCH a huge part of her life and she loved it so much that I was so sad it was the last time I'd see her play with them. I cried when she had her last college concert a month ago or so. I had HOPED she'd play in our community orchestra this summer (she did the end of HS and one summer during college) but since she's flown the coop to CA, I guess that's not in the picture.

But despite crying maybe 10 mins a day over my kids, I still have the other 23 hours and 50 minutes to get things done.

I cry at all their events.

 

DD had a choir night, I cried.  DD sings for church by herself, I cried.  mini dd's christmas play I cried.  every event I cry.

 

don't know why.  not that I am bawling and bawling, but I shed tears.

No, I don't usually cry at any of their stuff. Ds has his 6th grade graduation tonight. We just go because we have to. I don't really feel TNT moving to j high is tht big of a deal. But I am not a real emotional person either.