Okay, so let me just say that my 7-year-old daughter drives me crazy! She has so much attitude and never listens. She never does what she is told and she drives her brother insane. All we hear on the weekends is “Bailey GET OUT OF MY ROOM!”, "Bailey LEAVE ME ALONE!", "MOM...Bailey (Insert what ever it is she did)!" This is normally followed by some sort of denial statement from my daughter. She will tell you that she was not in her Bubba's room as you see her walking out of Bubba's room. What did I do when I was a child to deserve this?! I love my daughter and I wouldn’t change her for anything, but sometimes I feel like she is just determined to put me in a Mental Hospital. She is strong-willed and will not back down from anything. She is most definitely going to be a leader. (I’m not sure of what yet. Could be President, could be a Prison Gang. We’ll see what happens.)
She is something special. She can also be the sweetest little girl ever. When she walks in the room and says “Momma I love you can I have kisses and hugs”. OMG I just die. Bailey is all girl. She loves pink, purple, glitter, princesses, dolls, (you get it)! OMG!
She is nothing like I was when I was her age. I was such a tom boy. My mom would fight me to get a dress on me. It wasn’t happening. I have to fight Bailey NOT to wear dress. What the hell?
I never imagined having kids when I was younger, especially a daughter. She challenges me everyday. My son is cool, calm, and collective most of the time. He will sit in his room and just watch TV (Yes I am that parent sometime.) Bailey is like a Freight Train waiting to come off the tracks. She never slows down.
I hate for her to be upset. It kills her dad and I to have to tell her bad stuff. At the end of this school year we found out that Bailey will have to repeat 1st grade. We were so worried about telling her. You never want her kids to feel like failures. We sat her down and she was devastated and so were we. She cried. I cried… It was really hard.
We felt like we were to blame and still do. A lot of our focus this past year had been on Sammy and trying to work really hard on him. We should have worked with her more. Read a book and went over her math every day. I can’t make that up to her. We have already spent a lot of the summer working on her math and reading.
You want you child to be successful. They have dreams and as a parent you would do anything to help them make those dreams a reality. Bailey wants to be a Scientist that creates Medicine to help people. That is amazing and I am so proud of her. Even though she drives me crazy and there are days when I just want her to calm down. I’m glad she is the way she is. She will go far and I can’t wait to see how far.
Bailey loves sports. She played Soccer for 5 seasons. Then we tried Basketball, but she is just too short right now and is now playing T-Ball. I am her coach. Let me tell that is a whole new world. We will definitely have a Stories of a Coach Mom coming soon. She love playing soccer, but she was just never fast enough to keep up with the girls. This year we played T-Ball Softball. She has fell in love. She is doing okay too. I think we may have found her sport.
My daughter may drive me crazy, but I love her more than life itself. She has so much of me in her. Her attitude, even thought I don't want to admit it, is me. I can't wait to see what she does with her like. I love you Booger!
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