Ah yes the ole teenage years. When your son or daughter exclaims at the top of there tweeny little lungs " I don't love you anymore!". Yep, just one thing though, my daughter is fricken three years old! What the hell??? She comes home after going to my In-laws for the whole weekend, which lemme stop here. I really do not like her going over there Friday night through Sunday night. First off, I feel it is a privilege for her to go over there and have a good time if she has been good throughout the week, not that spending her time with her grandparents is a privilege, but getting away and staying over there and eating, drinking, staying up late, and watching what she wants the whole weekend is. Also I feel that when she goes over there and does what she feels or wants, it "undoes" what we strive to teach and instill in here throughout the week. And most of all, I work all week, my weekends are sacred to me and it is one of the biggest reasons I got this job is a great work schedule with weekends off. I wish so much that we could have a normal weekend of getting up watching saturday morning cartoons, going out and doing stuff together like: going to a park, a petting zoo, the zoo, shopping, build a bear, or something worthwhile, you know "the stuff that memories are made of". I can't remember the last time she was here on a weekend.....And I truly miss that, and I think its time for a change. Anyways back on the whole thing this came from. My daughter keeps telling me out of the blue " I don't love you daddy" and when I tell her I love her she says "No you don't". Then she goes on to say that she loves all of these other people except me! What the hell? She's like "I love Mommy, Nana, Papa, Uncle J, Channie, Grampie, Jen-Jen, the Dogs, Dora, The Backyardigans, President Bush, The astronauts of the last trip to space......." WHERE THE HELL AM I?????????? Crystal says its just a phase and she'd screwing with me, but dang, I just keep thinking...this kid IS going to be a teen one day....and I will be going premature grey! Anyways, please let me know what you all think and if either of these two instances have happened to you and what you did to deal with them.
And remember, make memories everyday.
Ryan
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