This is her microphone!
Fixing the basement is paused so that we may be able to enjoy the summer first.
I LOVE this peach pie so much!
Sisters!
They found a caterpillar to play with.
The funny one.
The grown up one.I have two beautiful daughters (if I say so myself). Grace is 4 with beautiful blue eyes, brown curly hair and the brain of an adult. Jennifer is 2 with beautiful blue eyes, straight red hair, and a very infectious laugh.
Here is my newest (not really new, it just irks me) problem with people. When we go out (to the grocery store a restaurant or anywhere it doesn’t really matter) we get stopped by random people to tell us how beautiful Jennifer is. It’s nice to have people notice and make comments on how pretty your kids are. Then these people tell us how stunning her red hair and blue eyes are and how she is a rare breed.
Well my first thought is be to be polite (as my mother taught me) so I say thank you with a smile as nicely as I can. My next thought is she is not a breed, she is my daughter, a breed makes me think of a horse or a pig. Then after that my thought is Grace.
I think that both of my girls are beautiful each in their own way. Grace has the same blue eyes as her sister, but Jenni’s stick out a little bit more because they are going up against a mane of red.
I love that people think my girls are beautiful, I am grateful for the compliments. Maybe I am just an overprotective Mom, but I worry that Grace is going to have a complex from this somehow. Maybe a jealousy thing, or a why am I not good enough thing. I never (NEVER) want my girls to think they are not pretty enough or good enough for anything. I have a job to empower them with the ability to know they are enough.
Because of these random stops in stores and places I tend to make it a point to kiss Grace on the forehead and tell her “I love you”. I know that these people stopping us are just being nice in noticing Jennifer, but I just think about Grace and how she doesn’t get the same show stopping attention that Jenni gets. I don’t think Grace really realizes what is going on right now anyway, but I worry that she will catch on and I just don’t want her to think she is any less stunning then her younger sister!
***Please do not cry, but I will not be home next Friday to post a new Bloggity. Grace and I are going camping up north while Jenni and Daddy spend some time together at home.***
They are beautiful. :) My mom was always worried I was going to be jealous of my little sister for one reason or another - either that she got more attention from strangers in public places, or that she was a baby so she needed a more attention than a 7 year old. However, I have never been jealous of her. In fact, I was always so happy that I had a sister and when I met kids at school that were a single child I felt so bad for them. My parents told me when Jenny (I named her) was born that she would do everything I did, so I was responsible for teaching her how to be 'good' and always protect her... that was my job. In exchange I got a best friend for life. I am sure your girls feel the same way, and Grace may already assume that role as most big sis's do. :) I hope your girls stay and become the best friends my sister and I are. :)
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