*first- thank you so much for each one of you opening up and sharing your hearts on my last post. i loved reading each and every response. thank you for your words of encouragement and advice.*
it’s funny that she is the most like me and she has the ability to drive me the most nuts.
nuttiest? nutsiest? nuttier?
anyway, she does.
She’s a typical first child. Just like I was (am?). She’s a little bossy, but we are nipping that bad boy in the bud. She’s a little mommy.
Jimmy laughs at us b/c oh does she ever frustrate me sometimes. And I frustrate her. He will watch us frustrating each other and die laughing b/c we are the SAME person.
she is a talker. just like me.
she can talk for hours straight. one big run-on sentence. without even pausing to take so much as a breath.
it’s exhausting. it makes my brain feel like it’s going to explode and fall out of my ears. and she got it from me.
she’s a klutz. i once saw her get caught up in her own limbs, twirl around, before falling over backwards and landing in a laundry basket.
i laughed so hard i cried.
she got that? from me.
She’s extremely sensitive. And high-strung. She cries at the drop of a hat. Big, gulping, i-cant-get-a-word-out sobs. Like her heart is breaking. It breaks MY heart.
She got that from me.
If you send her to get something for you? She can NOT get it. She just can’t.
Yesterday I sent her to get me a tissue. She came back with a trash bag. The other day I sent her to get Sadie a bath towel. First she brought me a baby diaper. !??!!? Then, she brought me a HAND TOWEL.
OH FOR THE LOVE OF PETE, it is exasperating.
And oh yes…she got that from me. Ask my mom. She’ll tell you. Definitely got it from me.
She’s a ham. Precocious. All the world is her stage. She’s always putting on a show, acting out something. Her personality is a little over the top.
And you guessed it, all from me. Her mama was *ahem* Tom Sawyer in her high school production of Big River.
I used to do “routines” on the trampoline to Jump Jump by Kris Kross and made my parents come watch. HAHAH!
thankyouverymuch.
She loves with all of her heart. And she depends a little too much on what everyone thinks of her. If she is doing the right thing, getting approval.
And we are working on that. Because I don’t like being like that. And I’ve worked hard to overcome it.
Yes, she got that from me.
She is fearfully and wonderfully made…
and she has the ability to make me feel fearful and wonderful all at once.
That’s my girl.
Sometimes I can’t believe I had a part in making her. She is such a joy.
happy thursday!!
xo
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