Gotta take my oldest daughter to the school to have "The Talk" about what to expect as they enter puberty. Personally, I'd rather have major surgery... why must cute little girls turn into women? With the emotions and the drama, and the stubborness... Sigh...
No wait... This is a good thing... a good thing... yes...
--Ray
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
Hubby struggled with this too... Now Daughter is a beautiful graceful, and talented all grown up woman that could (if she choose to) get married... and she still makes the sun shine in her daddy's eyes...
Ray, she will ALWAYS be your little girl... even at 50, and THAT was the last thing MY daddy said to me, in person.. on this earth... the day after we buried momma... Little girls grow up, but they NEVER outgrow your love.
Even though I want daughters, this is the sort of thing I dread if we ever do. It was hard enough with our boy.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
Mom went too. She insisted that I go with... cuz I'm um... clueless about these things...
After the whole experience was over, I took my hands from off my eyes and looked at Katie (my precious little daughter) and said, "Let's go buy you something."
--Ray
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
That's funny. I've told MrCoco before that if I die, this family is turning into a JOKE! Okay, I didn't quite say that. But sheesh! He can't even braid hair for crying out loud. Maybe I'll make him go to the Talk when our 4 yo is that age.
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
There's something amazingly liberating about having gone. I can now say words like ovaries and breast tissue and phallopian tubes and vagina and most of the time I don't giggle anymore...
--Ray
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
That's funny. I've told MrCoco before that if I die, this family is turning into a JOKE! Okay, I didn't quite say that. But sheesh! He can't even braid hair for crying out loud. Maybe I'll make him go to the Talk when our 4 yo is that age.
That reminds me of when my son was born, I had to get my daughter ready for school. Because of the threat of lice we always put her hair in some sort of braid or something so its not just flying around. Well I had to braid it and it came out quite a bit crooked. I was a bit embarrassed but it was the best I could do.
We found some really good books to help us have the talk:
"Growing Up" by Brad Wilcox
"Between Husband and Wife" by Drs Lamb and Brinely
and I just bought a new book and sent it to my married children for them to use for the grandkids: " Understanding Your Sacred Body".
A new book on my list that I will recommend to those getting married is "And They Were Not Ashamed" By Laura Brotherson.
Since we homeschooled 3 of 5 our children at the time of "the talk" we were able to do it more gospel centered vs secular centered. And yes, we used the proper names for body parts. The 2 older kids got the talk in ps, but the school did not invite the parents to even view it before hand. Dh and I each talked to the 2 kids and cleared up any thing that went against the gospel.
She's only Nine, but yesterday after trimming a few branches off the tree in the front yard, my second daughter took off with them. I insisted she bring them back and cut them into pieces. She cried and hugged the branches as though they were her best friends ever. Then balling her eyes out in a completely irrational display of emotion over a stick... I invited her to get some rest in her bed.
Later she came down and apologized for getting so emotional.
This whole girl thing is so... gr-ay-ate...
--Ray
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
Son2 got REALLY attached to a piece of granite (about the size of large grapefruit...) There was NOTHING special about it but if we talked about keeping it outside, or Heaven FORBID... getting rid of it... he became unreasonably emotional... He was about 9 as I recall... It now has a place of honor in our front yard... Near a bush...
Maybe I'll make him go to the Talk when our 4 yo is that age. 
