So lately this whole having a daughter things has been on my mind, the difference between raising sons and daughters has become mind boggling. As I was sitting at the sewing machine last night (sewing Camerons lightening McQueen scripture bag) I was thinking, I have teach this girl how to sew! I don't even know what I am am doing, and I have to teach her how to sew? yikes! (yep, I will be working on my skills!) then I was thinking about a few years back, when I was the young womens camp director, I found out the girls didn't know that if you put bread in with cooking the cookies will stay soft, i.e. another thing I need to teach my girls, that hadn't even crossed my mind to teach my boys! I have to teach them how to cook, and clean, and be "ladies" and be willing to open a door for themselves but be grateful for a boy who will do it for them. Where as my parenting of my boys has been mostly teaching them to be gentleman (many of you would say I have failed, but my boys do have manners, they are just not well behaved :) say please, and thank you and excuse me, and open doors for girls and old people! Then I started thinking about other stuff I have to do with girls, training bras, the color pink! I have never liked the color pink! I mean with my boys I could always send coach Tyler to the sporting goods store to pick up their jock straps, but with the girls I am pretty sure I won't be able to send him into the bra department! AHHH~! I think this whole I have never been a girly, girl thing is coming around to bite me in the butt!
One good thing is, Tyler loves to bake, so he will be picking up that slack in that department, I have never been a good baker, so at least all the kids will know how to bake. And I am sure I can share my 5 good dinner recipes with them too... ( add that to my list, figure out some good meals to teach my kids so they don't live off of rice-a-roni and tortillas at college like I did)...
And this cleaning thing, this teaching them how to multi-task, and smile while doing it thing.... hmmm.... maybe what I need to do is work on myself a little bit huh?
This girl has already been a lot more stress then the boys! :)
5 comments:
Catherine, you will be a wonderful mother to your little girl! It doesn't matter if you're a girly-girl or not, you will be just what your little girl needs. You never know, she might not like pink, either!
You silly girl! She'll learn everything by just watching you. Girls are fun, but I'm with you on the "scarier than boys" a lot of times. Mostly because I remember waht I was like as a teenager girl. *gasp* It could be a long road... LOL! But totally worth it. So excited for you. And you don't have to do pink. She may not even like it! :)
This makes our mom smile I'm sure.
You are so cute! You will be a wonderful mother to your little girl just as you are to your boys.
It's funny to think some of the things you are worried about are happening to me right now. Ashlee has started wearing bras, I just got back from her school where she did a "hobby share" on baking muffins, and I am starting to teach her some sewing. At least you still have a few years:)!
I agree w/Erica...most of the teaching is done by watching. Then again, my girls aren't very gracious, polite, or well-behaved, so maybe I'm not the one to ask, lol!
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