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romping around with her brothers shoulder-pads - dress up). She looks like a girl, dresses like one, because she has to.(that is when she keeps cloths on, right now we are going through a nudist phase. you will have to excuse her should you enter our house and be flashed at any given moment). Inside major boy wanting to get out! Of course I'm quite sure that having 4 brothers doesn't help. But she would rather be on the football field, playing football and getting dirty rather than cheerleading. I am hoping that she will become more "girlie" with each and every year. But then that means, she will then be opinionated, mind changing and hormone induced! Again I say puberty and teenage years are equal to any possession I have ever seen in the movies So, I have a girl according to everyone else and according to God's sense of humor.

I often remind myself that God doesn't give us anything we can't handle! But, I think that God gives me more credit that I will ever deserve! But then he does that for us all. I just pray that I get through the teenage years with my sanity still in tact. Lately a padded room and straight jacket don't exactly sound bad. In fact is doesn't have sound at all and right now, this is what I'm looking for most. My sense of humor, wicked and crazy at times, doesn't always allow me a retreat from the insane (oops I mean mundane). I'm a woman, female double-talk is acceptable! I've decided instead of sending my children to their rooms for punishment, that mommy has to go to her room! Ya know, I bet sometimes, this is not a half bad idea. Might just make things a little easier, if we took that few minutes of time out (35 for me if going by age), which is just enough time to count to ten (thousand) for that matter and maybe make better decisions (or jokes to humor myself about whatever crazy situation my children have either put themselves in or me for that matter). Trust me, we parents are usually at the joking end of an episode that would put our child into "timeout". It is "US" more often than not, that receive the most "judgment" and are graded as parents, when they do something wrong!

So in closing, I'm definitely not saying that Parenting is Easy. I want to know who said this and how it was so easy. Not saying that it isn't possible. But it seems to me the days of "not speaking until spoken to and being seen but not heard" are long gone! And then again, I would never want it that way! It's what is spoken by them that either makes my days remarkably funny or terribly insane. But either way, Parenting Easy? Ha!

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