seems like just yesterday i would have said that line at least ten times a day! I know our road has not ended our daughters are 20 and 19, but let me tell you it is not anything like it was before! I always say "hate" is a strong word. well there were many many many times when i meant it. i love my daughters more than anything, i did anything for them and would still do anything for them.
so we are a week past thanksgiving 2011 and it was one of the BEST thanksgivings ever! both our daughters came home and stayed with us for the holiday and it was so nice to have them here. they were glad to see us, talk to us, we enjoyed our time together. i looked at my husband and said this was the good stuff.
raising two girls that are thirteen months apart was an adventure to say the least. best friends when they were little, the girls were inseparable! we called them alyssachristina, just one word. then 10 came and something happened, we don't know if it was the devil or aliens or what but they would turn into something so horrible that we didn't like them or want to be around them and everything we did was wrong or just to make their life miserable. we never thought we would get a break, one would be okay (happy is not what they were ever) but then the other would be out of control. i learned the phrase "and this too shall pass". it was my saving grace sometimes because i could not grasp what was happening. some of you may not understand this, but those with teenage daughters WILL understand and feel our pain! there were people who thought i was the most horrible mother in the world to my daughters and couldn't believe this and that (and actually told my daughters this) but they, they are not mothers of teenage daughters and do not know the hell that they will give you, the pain they can cause or the fear they can create, so i have to forgive them for thinking i was horrible because they do not have teenage daughters.
the teenage girls are now young adult women, who are the beautiful, smart, loving, headstrong ten year old girls that we thought we lost. and we love them
so now we have a boy, he's ten almost (like in 3 days will be turning 11) and let me tell you i have no idea what lays ahead on this journey but we are ready. poor kid has no clue we raised two teenage daughters and lived to tell about it so we know what's coming before he will!
