That is true, CollinsMum, but as someone who almost precisely that too - my children are all blonde and I am dark brown - I AM getting tired of variations of "so how did you end up with blondies?" and am considering spinning a tale about how they were really the result of my DH secret family with a Scandinavian model or something
I don't know - its odd no matter what the specfic content of the comment.
AlexsMom, that made me lol.
People can sometimes say the oddest things. As a SAHM living (by accident - long story) in a very, very low SES area, I get frustrated by people talking to me as if I don't speak English and am probably drug-addled. Sometimes it takes all my restraint not to announce my degrees.
Have you considered responding to them in Russian?

No, but now you've tempted me...