stink eye for the pink eye

I'm one of those mother's that will give you the stink eye if your child comes over to mine, gets all close into their faces, and it looks like there is goop coming out of the eyes of your child. It might not be pink eye, or it might be, or maybe your kid is on an antibiotic... I don't know and if you don't come over and tell me, I'm going to go with the worst case scenario.

I'm just a worst case scenario kind of a gal.


So, we were at the National Night Out block party last night (note, not our block's, because ours is lame, but the next block over, who was kind enough to throw an invitation to theirs in our mailbox, the downside of that being they are all basically strangers to us) And you know, it's hard making small talk with strangers, even harder to bring up in casual conversation that your daughter doesn't have any communicable diseases that they would have to worry about.

Conversations went something like this:

"Wow, that's wonderful that you are going to college on the weekend, kudos to you! You know what else is wonderful, that Edy doesn't have chicken pox or something else that you might worry about infecting your children with!"

or

"The cookies over there are to die for!! You know what you aren't going to die from, Edy... no, her body's just 73% covered with bug bites, that's it!"

or

"Well, of course I'd love a beer, thanks for sharing! You know who will not be sharing any skin rashes with you or your children? Edy! It's just mosquitoes, they love her."

So, now that I've thoroughly explained myself, you can all stop giving me the stink eye.

(Minus me forgetting to put bug spray on her in the first place).

Apparently, it's true, Minnesota's state bird is the mosquito.