Four Teenage Girls!!
So I have four
teenagers....and they are all girls. You
can only imagine what my bathrooms look like and what I might spend each month
on simple things like shampoo, hairspray, makeup, and tampons. Bobby pins and ponytails are treated as local
currency and swapping clothes is like trading stock. Oh, one thing I should mention...I didn't
want girls and yes, they know. I thought
boys would be so much easier. I had
visions of playing sports and getting dirty and not ever having to deal with
curls and hair bows. Little did I know,
girls are the best and worst of both worlds!
I know you have
asked yourself already .... Did you do that on purpose? The four teenage girl world you are living
in? Didn't you think about spacing them
more than a year apart? Or maybe you had
a double set of twins? Well let me take
you back to the beginning....
See, I FELL IN
LOVE!!!! If you have ever met my
husband John, you know exactly why. He's
damn gorgeous, has a wickedly intelligent sense of humor, and is the absolute
BEST person I know. He also has a spot
in heaven, kinda like VIP parking, because he lives with all women. He's the kind of guy you look at and say
"I'd have his babies" without much thought to the fact that you have
to raise them later. However.....we did
not mix up our DNA, not even once. We
took a little different path creating our family. Previous marriages resulted in two girls for
each of us. I took one look at him and
said "I already have two, What's two more?" See when you've been married awhile, and even
pregnant twice you have enough experience to question the decision to do it
again, however, single parents with small children are first and foremost sleep
deprived making most of their decisions when they are not in the right frame of
mind. Then you throw in THAT guy...the
one I married, and I had no shot at rational thinking.
He had two, I had
two. That's all it took, it was a done
deal and as we all know from 1st grade math class two plus two equals
four. However I don't remember any other
math teacher telling me about the other applicable formulas. 2 + 2 equals 10 times the laundry, 8 times more dishes to wash, zero hot water
in the mornings, and 100 times more noise!
It's such a wild
time and although I often make fun of having four girls I know I have the best
four girls out there. They are
beautiful, messy, intelligent, stinky, hilarious, cranky, thoughtful,
motivated, moody, athletic and that is just scratching the surface. I have four teenagers, all girls, an amazing
husband and I LOVE my life with them!
