For all you moms with tween girls…maybe you can relate.
Chrissy
Not pretty. Not adorable.
She’s not toothless.
She’s not thigh-high, tugging my shirt.
She’s not begging for Barbies.
She’s not following her brothers around,
trying to get their attention.
She’s not reading Magic Schoolhouse
or watching Blues Clues.
But damn she’s beautiful.
When did that happen?
Karma,
I loved it! But then, I love all your work. It’s tough watching them grow, isn’t it? I guess that’s what I have to look forward to when my own daughter (2) hits that stage. Right now I’ve got a tween boy. He’s morphing into a man right before my eyes!
My soul lit up with just a glimmer of recognition. My oldest is only 7, and being that she’s not around many older kids, she still seems young. (She checked out “Blue’s Clues” when we were at the library yesterday.)
But I’m starting to know what you mean. We’re on the edge.
Oh my goodness … I can see what you mean, just watching my teen nieces. My little girl is only three, so I have a little ways to go … but it goes so fast and I can see it coming … you said it perfectly.
I loved this, it is bittersweet indeed.
My eldest girl is 11 and off to secondary in Sept. We both have razors in the bathroom now and bras are most definitely imminent! I miss what she was with all my heart but so proud of what she is and what she’s becoming. So strange
Ahhhhh…..but Chrissy will always be “little Chrissy” to her Aunt Debi
I have three teen age girls and I can relate a lot, teen girls are different and one of my girls loved blues clues I miss those days, it is so busy when our kids are little and then they grow up and I wish they were little again, but would I have the energy to do it again…..
Karma!
Tears forced their way into my vision as I read this! I do not have girls, however, am blessed with three rambunctious, wild boys! I know the days of couch-cushion forts and rescuing princesses are going to fade their way into a dusty memory much quicker than I can handle! Thank you for putting into words the future emotion I will someday embrace, but for now have the fortune of only imagining! It is, for this very purpose, the reason I am writing the memories of my boys! So, when the day comes that who I have standing before me is a man, and no longer my baby, I will have those written memories to hold and share with the next generation of babies to come to me!!! So quickly time flies, but how much faster our children do grow!!!
Wow! That was a lot of talking to simply say ‘Thank you!’!!
~ruthilyn