It’s amazing, isn’t it, that just when you’re ready to throw in the towel with parental responsibility, your child lands a zinger, and all you want to do is cradle them in your arms. How is it they know just when to “ stop us in our tracks ”? One minute they are truly on the verge of being “ grounded ” for eternity, and then all of a sudden, perform with incredible brilliance and/or insight. " Who are you " and " where the hell have you been ?” is all I can wonder at those moments. How is it that such brilliance and maturity can be demonstrated when all we really want is an excuse to confirm the punishment that we had just, or was about to, administer? Are they that smart? Do they even know what they just did? Could it be that they finally acknowledged our exhaustive efforts of ‘parenting’? Not for a second ….. I know it’s a rhetorical question, but don’t you ever wonder just who’s parenting who. There are days when I question everything I do, and then there are m...
Everyone goes through "stages" or "chapters' in their lives, whether its wanting to move out of the city and buy a farm, or learn to roller blade and lose those unwanted pounds, or join a book club or bridge club and become more "rounded", or sign up for that design class you were always sorry you didn't pursue. Sometimes these stages present themselves without effort and we consider it "meant to be". And yet sometimes it just HAS to be...