It has always bothered me on some level that my children are not native New Yorkers like Tom and me. I love being from New York, although many people are incredulous to find out that
A) I am a New Yorker
B) I come from somewhere other than "the City"
C) Subsequently ask where our accents and our knives are. Seriously.
D) Why we don't act like New Yorkers. ("Wow, you guys are actually nice!")
Regardless of the NY stigma, we love being from the great state and our children have the classic "I Heart NY" shirts (you know the one) in the hopes that some New Yorkness will leach into them. Ian is in a phase where he must wear that shirt. He loves "Yew Nork" as he proudly exclaims while getting dressed. And who lives in "Yew Nork"? His grandmas! He has two!
He also has some very cute turns of phrase for an well-loved appliance in our house. The refrigalater and the frozer are very important. Too bad we are having a juice-free week here, so the refrigalater isn't getting the love it usually does. And the most disappointed person for juice-free week.....Tom.
I'll toss in a disclaimer for those not from New York. Your state rocks too. Maybe not as much as Yew Nork, but I am sure it's close. (that includes Texas, Nora!)
7 comments:
Love Ian's words. Too cute!!
I know how you feel about the boys not being native NY'ers. My boys are not native MA'ers. Neither of them have the accent (Thank God!!). Mine were born in two different states. We've lived here for 14 yrs. now and they do consider it home but it took a while for my oldest.
They always had the Boston teams' clothing and people used to give us dirty looks in Philly! Oh well...they got over it.
Not all NY'ers are mean! ;-)
I would love to visit New York sometime - maybe when I retire. :)
I'm from Yew Nork too! and I get all the same questions - especially the comments about how friendly or polite I am, can't be from NY!
we're so misunderstood
People always thought I was Canadian for some reason. New Yorker's really do have a reputation that we don't deserve. Manhattanites may not wave "hi" to everyone they meet (it would be too exhausting), but wait for a crisis and you have a committee working together or ask for directions and half a dozen volunteers will offer guidance. Yew Norkers are very nice people. As are people pretty much everywhere when you get right down to it. I like refrigalater.
Why are you having a juice-free week?
I agree - it pains me that my kids have no concept of what being a New Yorker is (aside from a million other NY things they could be enjoying).
When I first moved here a woman who is a very good friend of mine now, decided she didn't like me solely based on the fact that I was from NY.
I was doing a juice-free week because juice was costing an arm and a leg. Unfortunately, Connor will not drink much else, so I am probably going to have to buy some juice and mix it with water.
I lived all my married life in NY, so all four of mine are native New Yorkers, although I am not. The only one still there is my oldest.
don't you love the kid-versions of words? My son used to call cobwebs "cowboys".
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