Teenage Daughters

I absolutely HATE being the mom of a teenage daughter.  I thought it would be loads of fun but really???  Every time I drive her to school I manage to piss her off and then she gets out of the car all mad and I worry the rest of the day about her.  UGH.   As a disclaimer, I was the perfect child.  Seriously.  I didn't smoke, drink, do drugs, or even swear.  I respected my parents and did my homework.  I had a busy social life but I didn't even know there were parties going on... seriously!   I don't expect Kayla to be perfect.  I don't expect for her to be me by any means.  I just don't know how to handle the rebellion.  It nothing really.... she just has a couple of friends I don't like and she plays on her phone / itouch at times that she shouldn't.   And she disappears after school and we don't see her until she comes out to say goodnight.  I'm doing my damnedest to stop that habit.   And I know its normal.  She's 14.  She needs space and privacy and all of that.  But how much is too much and when do I speak up?  When do I worry?  I just want for her to make it though high school alive and with a good head on her shoulders.  Its hard work raising a kid.  Really hard.   I remember holding her when she was a baby and thinking of all the things I was going to have to teach her and wondering how the hell I was supposed to do that.  And now she's 14 and there is still so much to teach her.   Its terrifying really.

Teenage Daughters - Martina McBride

I ain’t complainin’
But I’m tired, so I’m just sayin’
What I think
And if we’re being honest
Than honestly I think I need a drink
My baby’s growin’ up
She think’s she’s fallin’ all in love
And that I hate her
At seventeen, she’s just like me when I was seventeen
So I don’t blame her
[Bridge]
Do do do do
Do do do do
What are we gonna do?
Do do do do
Do do do do
What are we gonna do about it?
[Chorus]
Remember when we use to be
Everything they ever need
We had them believing we were cool
It’s like it happened over night
We’re always wrong, their always right
We use to be the one’s breakin’ the rules
Now we’re just mothers, we’re just fathers of
Teenage Daughters

She rolls her eye’s when I’m funny
But she’s sweet when she wants money and her freedom
Oh my god, she’s got a car
Swears they wont go far
And I wish I believed ‘em
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
Their beautiful, wild and free
Everything we wish we could be
But their still crazy
Oh you know, the make us crazy
[Chorus]
Yeah Teenage Daughters
I ain’t complainin’
But I’m just tired, so I’m sayin’
What I think
If we’re being honest
Than honestly, I think I need a drink
Martina McBride – Teenage Daughters Lyrics

New Year, New Plan

Happy 2012!!  Hope everyone had a great night and that this year is filled with lots of promise of love and laughter.   I thought I'd try adding some more pictures to this blog... it might help when I have writer's block.  Its easier to comment on a picture than write a post out of the blue - not that I plan to stop doing that.  But maybe I'll post more regularly this way.  I love pictures.  LOVE.  I want photography to be part of my career one day.  I need to learn all of the technical stuff but I think I have a pretty good eye in general and I'm a master at self portraits.