Wow, it seems like my daughter was just a toddler and now she is in 2nd grade, for some reason I keep thinking she is going to 1st grade but, no it’s 2nd grade.  I am not sure if its turning 7 yrs old or what but over the summer she has become very independent, before she would only take bathes and she has long curly hair so I always had to shampoo, condition and comb out the tangles. But in the last few weeks she has started taking showers, and then she started shampooing, conditioning and combing and styling her own hair.  

Now, she has decided she wants pop tarts and she wants to make them herself, and she talks to me like she is a teenager and not 7yrs old.  Even her older step sister said she couldn’t believe how much she changed in the 3  weeks since she last saw her.  She says things that just seem so grown up for her age, nothing bad just more mature or educated than I expected from my 7yr old. 

Today was her first day of school and beginning 2nd grade, and she got up told me how she wanted her hair to be, told me that she was going to have pop tarts and I wanted to make her different healthier breakfast but she wanted to do her own thing, so I allowed it.   She ended some how breaking her water bottle on the first day of school, it was one of the nicer hard plastic bottles and I guess she either dropped it or dropped her book bag when it was clipped to it and broke it, so I was not so happy about that but I took her to get a new one.  When we get to the store, I buy her a totally different water bottle that is the softer plastic that shouldn’t break as the other one did and she was like “NO ONE ELSE HAS A BOTTLE LIKE THAT’,  I was like so what you broke the expensive one on the first day and so this is what you get.

It just seems like our kids at earlier ages are so concerned with what everyone else thinks or has, but right now my husband just lost his job and I am not wallowing in cash, so we will have to do with what he have or can afford.  I am not one of those moms that thinks my daughter has to have all the most expensive brands, I didn’t grow up that way and i am not going to buy a pair of shoes over paying a utility bill at home right now. 

But anyways its just amazing how fast she has grown to 7yrs old, it just seems like the years have flown by and she is getting bigger, smarter, and more independent each day..Pretty soon she will be a teenager and hate my guts, so I have to try and enjoy what time we can get together before those dreaded years come along.. Thank goodness we are only disagreeing on a water bottle today, because soon it will be boys that we will be disagreeing on..Cherish the moments with you kids as they grow up so fast, I spent this summer with my daughter home with me and I made sure we had our special hang out days each week because I want to have those memories together and I want her to think her mom is a little cool, even though I am probably not..I still hope she looks at me, and thinks “my mom is the best’.

I loved having her home with me this summer BUT thank goodness 2nd grade is here to give me a break !! 

Til next time!!

Well, so far its been a pretty smooth summer break..Yes, I was a little worried over 9wks with my daughter over summer break, but so far we have kept busy going to the gym, then hanging out at our pool and hitting the water park once a week. 

Yesterday, we went to Stone Mountain park and did everything we possibly could do in a day, we hit the 4-D movie, road the train, took the trolley to the top of the mountain, Taylor rock climbed, we did the Sky Hike which was to scary for an old girl like myself, and we went to the Great Barn for a good shoot out..So, it was a fun filled exhausting day but so special to have that time with my daughter just hanging out laughing and spending that mommy, daughter time.

Last week my daughter was in Vacation Bible Camp and that did offer me some time for myself and Taylor has spent a weekend with her grandma and a night with her cousins and even did her first girlfreind sleep over. So, its been a good summer so far, we have had some moments of stress and needed breaks but overall its been good and I think we will spend time at the pool tomorrow after a long day today doing doctor’s appointments and renewing my drivers license as well as running other errands.

So, hopefully if there is anyone else out there who is either enjoying or stressing over the long summer break with the  kids, you can always leave me your comments on what’s happening with your family.