Thought this was cute so I had to post.. And hate to say this Lori but when I read this I thought of you.. check out number 13 and tell me that is not true.     Ah you know we love you! 

Mom #3

1.You maintain three stages of jeans before they actually enter the laundry: Jeans with horse sweat and grime only on the hemline (suitable to wear out to dinner); jeans with sweat stains on the calf and slobber below the knee (okay to wear to grocery store, but not to the bank); jeans with neatsfoot oil dribbled down the front of one leg, hole stabbed near ankle from wayward spur and frayed pockets where your underwear nearly shows through (not fit for public viewing, but perfect for one more ride).

2. You realize that your everyday language is peppered with with words like, "whoa," "get up!" "over," and and you find yourself uttering clucking sounds to the people in front of you at the checkout line.

3. Your horse's board bill is higher than your rent/mortgage.

4. Your able to save money on disposable razors because the hair on the
inside of your calves is perpetually rubbed off.

5. What exactly is fine jewlery anyway? All of your rings are misshapen, flattened on one side side from where rein presses against your finger.

6. When people ask how your significant other is, you think they're talking about your horse

7. You tentatively agree to attend family functions such as reunions and weddings only after checking your social calendar (i.e., making sure there's no conflict with any horse show dates.)

8. People often don't reconize you you when you clean up for the above mentioned unmounted events...they so rarely see you out of jeans or breeches.


9. You spend half an hour at the hair dresser's, discussing your coiffer so that it fits under your safety helmet.

10. Actually, you spend more time on your horse's hair than your own.

11. "Inside leg! Inside leg!" You find yourself urging your car to change leads around a turn.

12. Through attrition, your silky lingerie is slowly being replaced by cotton sports bras with all the comforts of a boa constrictor.

13. Your car has become a rolling tack room, filled with old boots, saddle pads to be taken home and washed and bits of hay. You forget what color it really is under that ever-present layer of barn dust.

14. "My other car is a horse," and you much prefer the single horsepower,hayburning transport.

15. At any given holiday, relatives make misguided attempts at buying gifts that they think reflect your joy of riding: glitzy belt buckles, funky
cowboy hats, and any sort of paperback book or video that has o horse on it's cover or metioned in it's title. (You have nine copys of The Horse Whisperer).

16. You have more pictures of your horse than you do of your spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend

17. You are constantly sore from falling off that damn horse you took to train