We are all in this together....until:

You know those moms who walk around placing extra emphasis on "how together" you always seem. Setting you up to help them out because you just always walk around resembling the woman to the left with perfectly coiffed hair and a hot dinner waiting for your husband as soon as he walks through the door. This mom buttering you up always has it harder than you could ever imagine and would just die without your help. So you oblige, until:

1. I am happy to drive your child to soccer practice along with my own. We are all going to the same place and back home to the same neighborhood, and you are running late from an appointment....

2. Until I can hear someone with an Asian accent at your "appointment" ask if you want square or round tips and then instructs you to pick out a color.

3. I am happy to share a babysitter with you since you have to run out and you can't get your husband on the phone...

4. Until I return home, set the babysitter free (paying for your child too) and your husband shows up to retrieve your child doused with sweat in workout clothes and conveniently cash free for no reimbursement.

We are all driving each other's kids around, volunteering, cooking, cleaning, mending hurt feelings and kissing scraped knees....so if you are going to butter me up to get some help out of me and are NEVER available to reciprocate, the butter better be in a cold bottle of chardonnay. on my porch. held by a babysitter.which you are picking up the tab for this time.