I don't know what I would do if I didn't have at least one little girl. My boys live on such a different plane of existence that I cannot relate to. They wrestle, they watch baseball, they put their clothes on backwards and don't care and run and yell a lot. Why is it whenever you take pictures of them after a certain age, they are always making faces like this into the camera?
Rosey Posey is officially 12 and she is a cross between lots of girlie fun and well extreme emotions. The emotional aspect is confusing. She starts to cry over things that seem very silly to those of us anchored in a more even hormonal existance.But when she is normal, it is fun to talk clothes and hair with someone. The only thing is by virtue of the fact that I am her mother I seem to automatically earn extra "corny" points. I guess that is a given. My cyber friends however are much cooler than me. Peony is cool because she has good taste in books and admits to blowing up her oatmeal in the microwave like Rosey Posey does. Patty is cool because she likes 50 Cent and uses the term "wankster" (I don't like "Fit-tee" that much so I am not as cool). Dinka is pretty and exotic and "wow, she's from Europe" and speaks a bunch of languages...How come I'm not cool for picking cool friends?
Well, anyway, I am glad the God blessed me with one female.
I think that there's a picture of me somewhere making that same face too. Either way, that's definitely one of dad's expressions.
...she's scary...
(Don't let the smile fool you.)
You are indeed blessed!
If it's any consolation, my own kids think I'm pretty lame. They're obviously not as enlightened as Rosie Posie is. :)
pretty! me! pretty! ohmygodyouaresothecoolestfriendlikeever!
no, but seriously. the pansy cool factors: mixed cultures all over (incl. "ethnic"!), lived in fiji, lots of cute kids and some street cred on top of it.
Ellyn,
Thank you. Children are sacramentals, so all us mommies are very blessed by the Lord. Sometimes we just have to stop and remind ourselves that-lol.
Dinka and Patty,
Well Moms always get disqualified for being cool because we make kids eat their vegetables, and go running and sweep and do their school work and when they claim Usher is so cool you stop and explain that no he is not because he sings about cheating on his girlfriends and having kids out of wedlock. Lots of things that give you the "oh Mom" 's.
I just wish we all lived closer so we could help each other out more...I think having some "cool" Catholic friends in physical proximity would help in this stage of the parenting game.
A friend of my daughter's told me I was cool once and my darling child informed me that this friend has always had a problem identifying cool! My child was 12 at the time, I think.