Elisa Donovan, 43, is best known for her roles as Amber in Clueless and Morgan on Sabrina The Teenage Witch, but it sounds as if motherhood is her favourite (and most challenging!) role yet.
"That huge diaper bag full of crap that I meticulously prepared with all sorts of new treats and gadgets meant to distract/feed/entertain/mesmerize/outsmart my child for the six hours I would be airborne? A total waste of space.
"The head stewardess (whom I will call … 'Margo,' not to protect her identity, but because I was so delirious that I never actually got her name), kneeled down next to me and with a gigantic, circus-sized smile on her face, very calmly and evenly whispered, 'Hi Ms. Donovan! I’d like to introduce you to Judy,' gesturing towards an older woman sitting across the aisle from me.
“'Judy is a grandmother of three, and she would LOVE to help you with little Scarlett!'"
"My initial wonder at how she could possibly have known Scarlett’s name, quickly turned to dismay when I realized that Margo had actually taken it upon herself to look at the passenger dossier and learn my name, my kid’s name and the names of the people in the surrounding areas, before approaching me."
She added, matter-of-factly: "I know that you think I’m exaggerating, and trust me, I truly wish I was, but if you saw me holding my screeching and squirming child, whilst myself inconsolably rocking and weeping from exhaustion, you would have been at once grateful for your own sanity and terribly concerned by my obvious lack of it."
We love how Elisa has summed up the realities of flying with a child - not to mention how she made us giggle all the way through it!
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