Fast Forward a Few Years
We’ve been watching our nieces who are nine and four. I picked them up Sunday afternoon and their parents will come get them tonight. I love these girls, but man, this is tiring. I’m just not at this stage as a mom yet. Jake’s sister has definitely evolved to this stage of motherhood, but I’m still working on the “Please don’t put that in your mouth” stage.
It was a definite shocker today, when in a store I said, and I quote, “I don’t care who started it, it’s finished now.” I don’t know if I’ll be lucky enough to have another kid, but if I do provide Bridget with a sibling she can fight with, I know that phrase will probably come out of my mouth several more times in my life.
Don’t get the wrong idea, these are very well-behaved girls. But they are kids and they act like kids. And they are sisters who act like sisters and that means a healthy amount of arguing. In fact, I am amazed at how mean they can be to each other one second and then completely loving and sweet the next.
At least I have my sister-in-law to help me when Bridget does get to this age. Right now I can’t believe Bridget will ever be as big as these two girls, but I know she will be before I know it.
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That phrase is one that would make me think I’d turned into my mother!
I find myself saying things like “When I was your age…” and we don’t even have kids yet! I know when we do, I’m going to be busting out with all sort of horrible lines that my parents used to utter.
Is it that when we pass a certain age, we all magically get brainwashed with all these phrases inserted into our vocabulary!??!?!
I can’t wait until you day you say “One more word, and I’ll turn this car around!”.