By Kathleen Guthrie Woods
It’s official: I’m obsessed. I cannot get enough of the news and photos and stories and updates and video clips of England’s Prince George. He’s so cute! And he could have been mine…in my fantasy world.
Men have their fantasy football leagues, I have my fantasy royal life; and the little prince’s birth has pushed my imagination into overdrive. I daydream about life as a princess. I scroll through images of famous tiaras and pick the ones I think will be the most flattering on me. (I’m thinking the Girls of Gt. Britain and Ireland Tiara would be suitable for around the house.) I picture myself in fascinators and fabulous designer suits for events (wasn’t Duchess Kate’s cream dress for the christening gorgeous?) and skinny jeans–chunky sweater–riding boots combos for when the paparazzi catches me pushing my own cart at the market. I imagine how I would love my royal babies, how they would adore me, and how the BBC, TIME magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle would capture personal and iconic moments in my family’s life for posterity.
My dreams of being a mother crumbled in real life, and I know my butt won’t fit into skinny jeans. That’s reality. But deep in a secluded corner of my heart, where my fairytale lives on in my dreams, I still think about what might have been, and I think it might have ended happily ever after.
Kathleen Guthrie Woods is a Northern California–based freelance writer. She is wrapping up her memoir about being a temporary single mommy and how it helped her come to terms with being childfree.
He is a cute baby.
I find I don’t think about what could have been any more. Not allowing myself to think that was the biggest contributor to healing and recovering. But yes, I still have dreams that I could fit skinny jeans!
I agree that you have to force yourself to stop thinking about these things to stop the pain and start healing. I am finding myself a lot happier lately and I know it’s because of it. P.S. Last year, I started a diet to improve my cholesterol, and I lost weight and for the first time am able to wear skinny jeans. I don’t know how to wear them, but my niece talked me into them and I’m trying to get used to it. I do know you don’t have to be skinny to wear them so go get a pair!