This is my sweet daughter. She is in the funnest stage right now. She has always been super chatty(at least at home)but now she really has something to say and conversations with her are rather entertaining. In some ways she seems wise beyond her years, yet at times I am reminded just how young and innocent she is.
Yesterday we were having a conversation about relationships and she said,"I've never heard you and daddy fight and yell at each other." I responded,"You're right. Dad and I don't yell at each other but that doesn't mean we always agree on everything." She said, "Yeah, like Dad likes to eat cold honey butter on warm bread and you like both to be warm."
If that's her best recollection of us disagreeing than we must be doing something right!(or at least hiding things really well!)
She also recently asked me what an X-rated movie was. (Where she ever heard the term I'll never know.) I explained that it's a movie that is full of "a lot of bad stuff." She said, "Oh do the people say bad words and wear immodest clothes?"
Yeah, immodest clothes. That's it.
I've just been thinking about how pure she is--totally unspotted from the world. She's not even accountable yet. I often joke that she acts like a teenager already with her karaoke machine and sassy fashion sense, but she is still very much a little girl who likes to play with dolls and have tea parties. A little girl whose view of life is so hopeful and uncomplicated.
How do I help her hang on to that innocence as she heads into the approaching years? How do I shelter her without being overprotective? The world of her teenage years will be so different than mine was.
Actually, I think I know what I need to do. I just pray that I'm up to the challenge.
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With 12-yr-old and 10-yr-old girls, my prayers are getting more frequent and intense on this very thing--and one of the two entering junior high? Yowza. I hope I've done okay, because in some respects, if I haven't, it's too late.
What a sweetie! She so reminds me of you when you were that age.
Sweet, sweet! Love to hear those things! They give me hope for the future! You and Mike are doing a fabulous job of raising a righteous family! Keep it up!
That was funny! She is so cute and you guys are doing a great job. Just look at how great Henry has turned out (so far!). Glad you came up last night, it was fun! Tell Mike we missed him!!!
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