girl roles-playing princess, etc.

[Cataboo]

ha.

My Mom's proud of me - but I am not quite the daughter she imagined...

She'll say things like "My friends kids get married, they have children, they own big houses... loook at my kids, what have they done?"

then she'll mention how well one of her friend's daughter is doing... and I'll be like... seriously Mom? She got pregnant at 15, dropped out of high school, has 4 kids, is on her 2nd marriage and has the big house because while her 2nd husband was divorcing his 1st wife, she got in a car accident with their daughter, both died, and he got the life insurance... But... hey, she's married with 4 kids & has a big house.

The thread on Mother's buying bike stuff for us was funny in that - I suppose if I asked my Mom to, she'd buy me bike stuff - But she really likes buying me jewelry, going to the jewelry shop with me, helping to design the jewelry, etc. And while I like jewerly, it's pretty, I don't wear it too much 'cause of what I do at work, and it's a bit dangerous if I crash with it on... so around my birthday or christmas, I let her take me jewelry shopping... It makes her happy, she gets to spend time with me, and it's a gift that she understands and i get a pretty trinket... When I first started skiing, she did take me and buy some base layers and fleece to layer - but I was still in college without much of an income.

My father understood my hobbies a lot better, and was more financially supportive of them - so as a kid, I'd get cabbage patch dolls from my Mom as gifts, and science kits or cameras or whatever from my Dad. It worked.


And I'm in no way saying my parents were or are bad