I have started dating someone recently, and along with the
awesomeness of having a man in my life who adores my boys (quirks and
all), he has DAUGHTERS!! Yes, daughters,
as in PLURAL little girls. Squee! For those of you who have followed this blog
from the beginning (really, are there any of you out there still?), you’d know
that I have always wanted a daughter, not suggesting I am not totally satisfied
(and fully overwhelmed) by my boys, but I have always had an emotional
attraction to having a daughter.
Now I have two-psuedo-daughters, both are 5 years old (‘Irish
Twins’ – 10.5 months apart) who are not only physically beautiful, but funny,
smart, sassy and genuinely great to be around.
What could be better than that? I’ll
tell you… :-)
There are small sandals adorned with flowers, coloring books
with kitties and ladybugs, purple hair bands, pink barrettes, and drawings of
me as a ‘Queen’ scattered about my house for the first time. Which warms my heart and soul in a new way.
We’ve all heard what girls are made of, you know, ‘sugar and
spice and everything nice’, well, I’ve also learned some girl-lessons along
this journey so far, and so I thought I’d give a long-over-due shout out to all
of you GIRL MOMS who I don’t enough air time to here on HLW3B – turns out there
are some twists to having girls I hadn’t anticipated (damn reality! Lol) – and I
could use some insight from you all.
Things I’ve Learned From Being an Honorary Girl Mom:
1.
Little girls have way too many shoes. Those flower adorned shoes are seriously cute,
but it turns out that once they leave their neatly lined up place in the
Nordstrom shoe department, and end up on your living room floor, they lose
their charm. Picking up 5,467,343 shoes is
a pain in the ass – no matter how cute the shoes are. *NOTE - This is not a rule that applies to
adults (aka Moms), because we pick up our own shoes and put them in the closet.
