the things no one tells you...
no one mentioned that when you become a parent (step-parent) that you will continually wonder if you are ruining your children. By ruin, I mean, literally, wreck them- cause them to need therapy and question running away at certain points I'm sure.
somewhere between when I was super-awesome-cool Colie and where we are now... i've lost the super-awesome-coolness factor.
not one time did anyone tell me that you will wonder what in the world you are doing? that you will loose your cool, probably say stuff that you swore you'd never.ever.say when you became a parent.... things like: "because I said so, that's why" or "don't think that i can't call school and make sure that you finish your sandwich at lunch." how about "did you know that if I ever did that when I was a kid.... " OH MAN.... what has happened to me???
i'm fairly certain he's the best kid in the entire universe... with a teensie monster living inside of him. (ha!)
he's not 3 anymore... he's 7 (and a half) with the vocabulary and attitude of a 17 year old, and i think i'm losing my marbles over all this... haa... not really, but still.
in my head, i pictured being cool for-eva... you know, the "fun one", instead i freak out and have mini-meltdowns over not wanting to be a "yeller" and trying to instill rules and good manners...
hopes and dreams for the future: So many, but mostly, that he grows up knowing that I love him ... as much as if I had brought him into the world myself, even when he's shooting me with evil laser vision.
somewhere between when I was super-awesome-cool Colie and where we are now... i've lost the super-awesome-coolness factor.
not one time did anyone tell me that you will wonder what in the world you are doing? that you will loose your cool, probably say stuff that you swore you'd never.ever.say when you became a parent.... things like: "because I said so, that's why" or "don't think that i can't call school and make sure that you finish your sandwich at lunch." how about "did you know that if I ever did that when I was a kid.... " OH MAN.... what has happened to me???
i'm fairly certain he's the best kid in the entire universe... with a teensie monster living inside of him. (ha!)
he's not 3 anymore... he's 7 (and a half) with the vocabulary and attitude of a 17 year old, and i think i'm losing my marbles over all this... haa... not really, but still.
in my head, i pictured being cool for-eva... you know, the "fun one", instead i freak out and have mini-meltdowns over not wanting to be a "yeller" and trying to instill rules and good manners...
hopes and dreams for the future: So many, but mostly, that he grows up knowing that I love him ... as much as if I had brought him into the world myself, even when he's shooting me with evil laser vision.
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