I love being a mom. I love talking to my mom about being a mom. I love thinking of things my mom did and putting them to practice in my own life. I love the example my own mother was and is to me. I never thought I would be comparing strategies on raising a teenager WITH my mom. :) God's plans are always so perfect, yet if He tells us his plan before we are ready to hear it, we would think He is crazy. If someone told me 12 years ago that I would be raising a teenager at the same time as my own mother, I would have laughed in their face. However, I LOVE IT! It makes it such a wonderful experience having the most amazing mother not only helping me along the way, but going through such similar situations with me. She calls me when there is something from Dr. Dobson on the radio about raising teenagers. She talks to me about things that worked for her. I talk to her about what I am doing and we discuss things that we both can do better. Although I never thought I would be doing this, I would not want it any other way!!
I never thought about how you and mom are raising teenagers at the same time! wow. But i guess you totally are! :) Keep writing, i am learning a lot about your thought processes :)
ReplyDeleteThat is so awesome Mary! I'm sure having someone to talk to about those kinds of things is wonderful. It's pretty neat that you and your mom both are rasing teenagers. That must be difficult. Not looking forward to those years at all.
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