My Girl

With her birthday in the spring, April is always the month that brings Kelly to to forefront of my mind. This year her growing a year older seems more bitter sweet than other years. She is the first of my girls and I am seeing her change from my perfect, follow the rules, shy daughter, into her own person, becoming more confident, and who at times can be....let's say...kind of sassy.

God has blessed me with sons as well as daughters, and I am so grateful for my children. But I am experiencing the reality that girls present a whole new set of demands on my patients and parenting skills than the boys do. I don't know what is more trying, the teenager who is constantly jumping up to see how high he can reach and leaving grubby finger prints all over my ceiling, or the daughter who stops talking to me if I look at her the wrong way.

With all that being said, scrapbooking can be my therapy for a bad parenting day. It helps me appreciate my kids quirks, and is an excuse to get away form it all for a while. So this past weekend, with the help of my understanding husband, I escaped for a while from ALL my children and did some scapbook pages about my girl of the month, my still well behaved, brown eyed, not very girly girl...my Kelly.