Listening to: Tonight’s Gonna Be a Good Night – Black Eyed
Peas
Mood: Optimistic
Hello folks. I know I’ve been rather absent from this blog
for a while. I’ve mostly been over at Following the Masala and Just PassingThrough. I seem to have more to say in those forums. My life has been SO full
of my daughters this past year, sometimes the last thing I want to do is sit down and write about them in my free
time too.
I know the tone of this blog has been a wee bit dark as of
late, and for that I apologize once again. I’ve turned into a bit of a whiner and
a Negative Nancy about some things we’re dealing with and that isn’t good for
anyone. I’ll get to what the strategy is that has been helping us deal with
undesirable behavior in the next post. As to what’s been helping me be a better
mom, it’s a big ole dose of put your big girl panties on, adjust your own
attitude, and act like an adult. A hard pill to swallow, no doubt, but if the
nurses start acting like the psych patients, we’re all on a sinking ship.
Anyhow. I wanted to share with you what I consider to be
some of the fun moments you get when Mother nature graces you with a girl baby
or two. I find it absolutely tragic that in some places in the world, girl
babies are a liability and are not valued, and occasionally not even tolerated.
I wouldn’t trade my daughters for boys for anything in the world. However,
Mother Nature, if you should be so kind to bless this house with a boy, I would
be thrilled about too. Hint hint, elbow elbow. Ahem.
There is nothing on earth like a clean little girl, fresh
out of the bathtub. I know boys are cute, but girls in footie pajamas with
neatly combed hair are just adorable. Especially when this is almost the only
time when you see yours clean and fully dressed. There’s also that lovely smell that hangs
around them after they dry, especially their hair. This goes away after they
grow up a bit, tragically.
Little girls have adorable clothes. My husband has
threatened me with a restraining order from certain stores just so I won’t sit
in the baby/toddler isle and cry over all the squee worthy clothes my daughters
no longer fit in. I’m not a mom who gets all crazy about only putting her
daughters in pink, but I like pink too. It screams innocence, which they are because
they’re little girls. Any nice bright color is good though. Don’t get me
started with the dresses.
Little girls are much more fun to fix their hair. There’s
only so much you can do with a little boy’s hair without people thinking there’s
something really wrong with you. Pig tails and braids are pretty much out.
Again, my daughters are never so cute as after they’ve gotten dressed for the
day (in clean clothes!) and have had their hair fixed. I won’t see them that
neat/clean again until evening baths. I’ve never understood the people who can
go out with their kids clean and neat all the time. That just never worked out
that well for our family. I love watching them be concerned about wearing cute clothes and fixing their hair, only to not care a half hour later, because they are children after all.
Girls are inherently softer and more in tuned with emotions around
them. Yes, it was a generalization, but it is somewhat true. Leave alone if it’s
fair and good to do, it’s how people behave towards girls. I love the need to
snuggle, the need to talk about feelings, the not being embarrassed to get hugs
even though the oldest is 8.
Enjoy your girls ladies and gentlemen.
Becky
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