French toast sticks? What french toast sticks?

When trying to impress a mom I am interested in dating, it always takes me a while to be entirely truthful. I don't out and out lie to the person, I just leave out details. For example, today on the phone, I told my awesome new mom friend that I was going to have to take my kids to the Nightmare Of All Nightmares: Ikea. I have to pick up some curtain rods for their rooms, and maybe some curtains to put over their really ugly blackout drapes. This is what I told her. Which is the absolute truth. What I left out was that I was going to bribe them with Ikea lunch afterwards. I didn't tell her because, a) Ikea food is disgusting, and I usually have a rule that if I wouldn't eat it, they don't get to, either. b) my new friend is a super healthy person, and would probably be completely disgusted that I am doing this. Of course, this is a completely irrational fear of mine, because my new mom friend is awesome awesome awesome, and there is no way that she would stop being friends with me because I am letting my kids have Ikea french toast sticks for lunch. I don't know why I feel compeled to leave out information, maybe because I have hidden guilt that I am feeding my kids Ikea french toast sticks that I wouldn't even eat? I think it's possible, but I think the real reason stems from wanting to really have a relationship with this mom that is judgement free. Is it really so bad to want friends that don't judge you too much? I want my mom relationships to not be a lot of work. And even more to the point, I don't necissarily want them to have a ton to do about kids or how we're raising them. I want to definately acknowledge the fact that we both have kids, but I'm looking forrelationships with WOMEN. Not MOTHERS. There is nothing more depressing than the day you realize as a new parent that a lot of the relationships you are oging to have with women will now be as mothers. And certainly, most of the women you meet with your kids in tow will only be mother-based relationships. One of the perks about having good friends around, though, is being able to forget about the kids a little when you are around them. This is so important, I've found, because if you can even have just 5 minutes of that a week, it's like the equivelent of getting 4 hours of uninterupted sleep. So, I'll keep my less steller parenting moments to myself, for now, and just focus on fun times ahead.