Okay, so we are in a second day of really cold weather (for us) and I am already done with it. It is not so much the cold, it is getting everyone functioning in the cold. We all ready have issues getting out the door on a normal day, on a cold day it is much worse.
I love my daughter Bailey, I really do. However, she is not one of my favorite people to be around between 6:30am - 8:00am in the mornings. She is not a morning person and I am. Other that, we have very similar personalities (so I am told). This is possibly why we drive each other crazy, especially in the early morning hours. Bailey's main concern in the morning is her nail polish and lip gloss. Today, instead of putting her shoes/socks and coat on, she was applying neon green nail polish to her nails in a last ditch effort to "get ready". I was already packing Jake into the car, hurrying to put the recycle bins out which Peter forgot to do and trying not to freeze to death. Okay, still no sign of Bailey so I back the car out of the garage and hover in the driveway, cranking the heat, waiting... The girl flies out of the house without a coat and nothing on her feet! She throws her backpack in the car, complaining that she just smeared her freshly polished nails all over her white sweater because I was rushing her. I sent her back in the house for her coat, she already had her shoes and socks in the car (or so I thought). Anyway, she is back in the car trying to get her coat on and her seat belt on. Next, I see her tying her green converse sneakers up and realize she is not wearing socks. She said she doesn't like wearing socks with those shoes. Okay, so it is the coldest morning this entire winter and she doesn't have socks on, let's hope her Teacher doesn't notice. We are almost to the school and running late, no turning back for home now.
This is pretty much a normal morning for us - except it usually about 30-40 degress warmer! I keep wondering what I have in store with her when she is a teenager. I think that my Mom privately gets a little laugh at this when I give tell her my Bailey stories, probably thinking this is payback time for me! She is a very good kid, very smart (did not get that from me), artistic and very athletic. She is also extremely stubborn and always thinks she is right (did get that from me!!!). I guess I need to remind myself to have a lot of patience!
I love my daughter Bailey, I really do. However, she is not one of my favorite people to be around between 6:30am - 8:00am in the mornings. She is not a morning person and I am. Other that, we have very similar personalities (so I am told). This is possibly why we drive each other crazy, especially in the early morning hours. Bailey's main concern in the morning is her nail polish and lip gloss. Today, instead of putting her shoes/socks and coat on, she was applying neon green nail polish to her nails in a last ditch effort to "get ready". I was already packing Jake into the car, hurrying to put the recycle bins out which Peter forgot to do and trying not to freeze to death. Okay, still no sign of Bailey so I back the car out of the garage and hover in the driveway, cranking the heat, waiting... The girl flies out of the house without a coat and nothing on her feet! She throws her backpack in the car, complaining that she just smeared her freshly polished nails all over her white sweater because I was rushing her. I sent her back in the house for her coat, she already had her shoes and socks in the car (or so I thought). Anyway, she is back in the car trying to get her coat on and her seat belt on. Next, I see her tying her green converse sneakers up and realize she is not wearing socks. She said she doesn't like wearing socks with those shoes. Okay, so it is the coldest morning this entire winter and she doesn't have socks on, let's hope her Teacher doesn't notice. We are almost to the school and running late, no turning back for home now.
This is pretty much a normal morning for us - except it usually about 30-40 degress warmer! I keep wondering what I have in store with her when she is a teenager. I think that my Mom privately gets a little laugh at this when I give tell her my Bailey stories, probably thinking this is payback time for me! She is a very good kid, very smart (did not get that from me), artistic and very athletic. She is also extremely stubborn and always thinks she is right (did get that from me!!!). I guess I need to remind myself to have a lot of patience!
I have two of those! Except now the older one raids my closet plus my nail polish and the younger one hogs the bathroom so long her brothers start howling. It's karma, don't you think? =)
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