"He Looks Just Like You..."

Packing my shopping at Tesco the other day, trying to subtly keep a tired and wired littlest son from damaging the fixtures and fittings when I realised the cashier was going all gooey eyed.

"You can tell he's yours!" she said.  

This has not happened to me before.  I'm really not quite sure how to take it.  Realising that looking bemused is not the expected response I cast about in my brain for some words.  

"I suppose he does look a bit like me," I say, thinking  "We have the same number of eyes???"

She then proceeded to compliment J's general beauty and cuteness which made me feel so proud it almost brought a tear to my eye.  "Oh thank you!  You've made me go all proud!"  I said.  Feeling somewhat overwhelmed.

She had no way of knowing she was the first stranger to compliment me about my children or the first person to say that J or A look like me.