Insanity is the way my world turns

For those parents out there that have teenagers living in their homes, I feel for you!  I understand the grey hair & the hair loss!!!  How about teenagers & then babies?  Another cause for hair loss (or at least a check for loss of sanity).  I'm just kidding!  I absolutely LOVE being a Mom & grandma.  Even when I am running several different places for things for the kids, working a crazy full-time job, trying to clean house, going to church, spending time with ALL of the family, or just staying home.  I know that in so many ways God has truly blessed my life.

There are two teenage girls in my house & they make things interesting.  Needless to say, I now know how much of a saint my mother was to put up with my sister, my brother, & I as we were growing up.  Though I don't think bombing my sister with stuffed animals is as bad as the wrestling matches that my 14 year old & 16 year old sometimes have in the kitchen for "fun".  There are days when I wish the house fairy would come to our house & not only clean it (PLEASE) but make an extra bedroom so that my girls wouldn't have to share anymore.

Do you know what it's like when you have teenage girls with different personalities & habits sharing a living space??  This is the stuff of world wars, people!  One daughter is laid back & easy going.  She doesn't care if her stuff is wrinkled, piled in a corner (to the dismay & dislike of her Mom).  The other daughter likes organization & making a statement.  Sometimes wish that statement wasn't "Mom, I'm going to kill her!" or "Mom, I can't wait till she moves out!!"  Believe me, there is a long conversation about how in the end all you have is family yet, there is still the belief that hey, maybe they were switched at birth.  

I know that my daughters love each other yet they still want to kill each other.  Thank goodness their baby sister hasn't shown any reason for wanting to kill anyone or to invoke wishes of death to her.  Instead it's more that they want to kiss her & hug her to death.  I guess God decided I had enough drama with the first two that He decided the baby would be so sweet & mild mannered to give me a break. :)  

Honestly, I would go to the ends of the earth for any of my kids (ANY).  Now, pass the wine & the hair dye so I can sleep to face another day!!!  LOL!