How do you know it's your kid?

I understand where your kid is coming from, 100%! There have been many times when I just didn’t use the new thing because I knew I didn’t have time to work my way through the learning curve at that particular time, or I had another good reason (in my mind) to wait.

For example, I won this *really* fancy coffee /espresso/ latte machine around Christmas that takes whole bean coffee. I don’t drink coffee at all but DH does, and the coffee maker he had before uses ground coffee. We have an almost full 3# can of ground coffee here, so I figured he would just keep using the old machine until that coffee was gone and then we could figure out what kind of beans to get for the new one and how to run it since it has a bunch of different functions. He had other ideas, LOL, and got that thing out of the box ASAP. Now there are two perfectly functional coffee makers on my counter and no room for the toaster that I actually use almost every day.   And to make the story even more funny, my DD figured out how to make hot cocoa with it within minutes of getting home from school the first day he set it up and burned through two gallons of milk making hot cocoa in the first week! 😳 So she’s definitely not like me in that regard!

She’s like my clone in loads of other ways though. I have a picture of her sitting on my lap as an infant and she has her feet crossed at the ankles in the exact same way that I sit with my feet crossed at the ankles. It’s pretty funny because the photo was 100% not staged!

DS can rhyme on a dime and we make up songs about people and pets around us to fit the scene.
We used to have so much fun at the mall or in traffic doing that.
Everyone has a name, backstory, and vibe we like to invent on the fly just to amuse ourselves.
Handy time-waster at the airport or in the DMV, etc.

That's how I know he's mine.

The one thing all four of my kids got from me (which drives DH nuts) is we all hate sitting with our feet on the floor.

Sarcasm. Definitely Sarcasm. AND he's adopted so he had to get that purely through osmosis!

Since he was tiny, I answer questions ridiculously. Can I have a snack? Yes -- booger sandwich ok? Where are we going? Crazy -- buckle up. You get the picture.

He's now 7 and started his own one-liners. It's HILARIOUS seeing what he comes up with!!

I did this exact thing. Got a new kitchenaid because it was on sale at Costco and my old one was making some crazy noises. Kitchenaid sat in the box in my garage for over 6 months because I didn’t want to unbox and I had no idea what to do with my old one. It was still making noise but working just fine so then I felt guilty for getting a new one. My daughter unboxed the new one at Christmas when we were baking and thought I was silly for not doing it sooner. She also asked if she could have my old one. So she solved both problems for me.

When DS was young, he would only eat half of a brownie or chocolate cookie. When we asked him why, he would say it was too chocolately. DH and I would look at each other and say *he's definitely NOT our kid*!

I would insert silly jokes into phrases, like "Let's make like a tree and leaf" (when leaving somewhere). I have lots of them, not just that one

My kids would roll their eyes at that. But I just love it when I started hearing them say the same things when they were with their friends. HA! Loved it!

my kids are huge readers, as is dh and myself.. like thick 19th century novel readers. and everything in between.

and being my kids, when they go out.. like road trip or outdoor activity, they are prepared.. my kids are the ones with sunscreen, water bottles, first aid supplies etc... they have been drilled on the 10 essentials (what you carry on every hike)..

I love reading these!

Everyone says DD and I make exactly the same facial expressions and huge smiles, and because of that, we look just alike. No one ever believes she was adopted at first because they just see that, not that fact that she's tall, blonde, blue-eyed, with a lovely nose - none of which have any resemblance to me. Our tae kwon do instructor used to laugh when we did drills because we'd even move in the same way.

Her friends always crack up when they first get to know me because they say our sense of humor is exactly the same kind weirdness, a mix of dark sarcasm, idiotically goofy, and yet very dry.

And we share a lot of the same interests in general.

No one ever says my son (adopted too) is just like me, even though he physically resembles me a fair amount. To be fair, we are both very different both personality and interest-wise!

When I got the We R Makers Frame Punch Board last year, I promptly handed the thing to my husband, Mike, and asked him to show me how to use it. He figured it out and demonstrated it for me, and he doesn't even do paper crafts. haha!