5 Things I Want My Daughter to Know About Me…
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I’m on a bit of a roll at the minute, catching up with blogs and memes and blog posts that I have put off and off and off. It’s about time I sat down and wrote something, even if it does mean post overload. I would schedule them, but unfortunately, this post is part of the Friday Carnival over at Notes from Home and, as it’s Friday tomorrow, a new prompt will be up and if I don’t post it now, I can’t get it into the linky! Anyway, BREATHE!
I really liked the idea of this post. I really liked the idea of getting 5 things onto paper (i.e. computer screen) that I would love my daughter to know about me. After all, this blog was started because of her.
So, without further ado…
To my girl…
1. First and foremost, I’d like you to know that I love you. I never realised how much you could love someone until my you came along. I never realised that there was such a huge gap in my heart until you came along and filled it. Just thinking about you makes me all goo-ey inside. You are my world. You complete me. I made you and for that I am so proud. I would like you to know that I would run in front of a speeding train if it meant saving you. I would like you to know that if anyone tried to hurt you, I would do anything in my power to stop them. I would like you to know that my love for you is unconditional – no matter what you do, I will always be here for you. Always.
2. I’m moody and grumpy and a pain in the arse. I know I’m a grump. I annoy myself a lot of the time. I have next-to-no patience. Because of this, I shout at you and snap at you when you’re being…shall we say…difficult. Whatever you do though, never take it personally. I need to find it within myself to stay calm and not shout as much as I do. I can’t help it. I’ve punched walls because of your dad before because I get so frustrated and stressed out at things. Please don’t take it personally. You’re perfect. Even mid-tantrum.
3. I’m fun and daft. I pride myself on being a bit of a numpty. I love having fun and playing silly buggers with you. On many an occasion, you can find us dancing around the living room like utter pillocks and tickling you until you can’t take any more. I am always the one who takes you to the soft play centres on my own so that we can run around and not feel as though I’m missing conversation with friends. You are all I need. I hope that I never grow up. I hope that when you’re bigger, you can see me for who I am and enjoy having me as your mum.
4. I swear. A lot. You will undoubtedly hear my potty mouth on many an occasion over the coming years. I have tried to stifle it. I have tried so hard, so that you don’t repeat words that you don’t know the meaning of. Luckily, you’ve only said “cock” and that’s because you were trying to say “cock-a-doodle-do” but stopped before the end of the word. Maybe it was the amount of syllables that flummoxed you. I hope you will understand that mummy uses naughty words but it doesn’t mean you need to. I hope you understand that mummy does try to say other words instead when she’s annoyed, but can’t always do this successfully.
5. I can be completely trusted. When you get bigger, I want you to be able to tell me everything. If you are hurt, or upset, or sad, or angry, or overjoyed – I want you to tell me why. You can always talk to me. I will always give you my honest opinion. I will always try to understand what is going on. I will always help you. I don’t want you to hide things from me when you’re older. I want you to be as honest as I am with you and everything will be groovy.
This post is for the Friday Club Carnival over at Notes from Home.
On this splended article there has been 19 comments...
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Hannah (Thursday 24th February 2011 @ 05:02 pm) (Reply to this)
Of course you can link back – there’s a carnival you can link too as well if you write it before tomorrow! It can be found over at Notes from Home.
Link away though! :) x
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Jules (Thursday 24th February 2011 @ 05:02 pm) (Reply to this)
I love this….I have a terrible potty mouth at times too but really have tried to reign it in with Row around…you sound like a wonderful mum/person to me :) x
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Mummy2Eliza (Thursday 24th February 2011 @ 05:02 pm) (Reply to this)
The first one brought a tear to my eye, I feel exactly the same way about eliza and the love can be so overpowering sometimes. Xxx
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Kerry (Thursday 24th February 2011 @ 06:02 pm) (Reply to this)
Oh I love this do you mind if I do it too, I am so going to do it tonight and link to the carnival as well. Brilliant things xx
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Hannah (Thursday 24th February 2011 @ 06:02 pm) (Reply to this)
Not at all :) I’ll look forward to reading x
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Inside the Wendy House (Thursday 24th February 2011 @ 07:02 pm) (Reply to this)
It’s amazing how much love you have for your littlies…and with every new baby you just find more and more love that you never knew you had! I’m a potty mouth…the kids say I’ve got Tourette’s but my 14 year old (who was also brought up on South Park) is a complete non-swearer! So there is hope for Freya!! Although saying that, when my 8 year old was 2 she said “Oh my f***ing knees!” in front of her Nan. Lol!
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Hannah (Thursday 24th February 2011 @ 09:02 pm) (Reply to this)
Haha that’s fantastic.
To be fair, if Freyja said something like that in front of my mum, my mum would laugh her socks off…
My friends daughter turned round the other day and shouted “Stop Pissing On Me!” at the dog.. so funny! x
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Lizzie (Thursday 24th February 2011 @ 07:02 pm) (Reply to this)
all of those describe me to a tee….did I really have that much influence on you???!! Sorry! x
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Hannah (Thursday 24th February 2011 @ 09:02 pm) (Reply to this)
Don’t apologise! Whatever influence you had on me were definite positive ones! x
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Christina (mummybeadzoid) (Friday 25th February 2011 @ 11:02 am) (Reply to this)
I think you speak for us all with your first point. A most eloquent expression of a mother’s love.
I don’t swear that much but I too am a snappy sausage (more at OH to be honest) and I’m trying to be less feisty. It’s so hard to try and deny who you are though! :)
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mymumdom (Friday 25th February 2011 @ 03:02 pm) (Reply to this)
Oh god, I struggle with a potty mouth too. If only there was a verbal equivalent of a gastric band.
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SAHMlovingit (Saturday 26th February 2011 @ 08:02 am) (Reply to this)
Aw these are lovely! It’s so true how much love we have for our LO’s isn’t it – I never realised I could love someone so much.
As for the swearing, they will pick all sorts up in school anyway. I have ‘fond’ memories of sitting at the dinner table one night after infants school and when my parents asked me what I’d done that day I said “Well, Katie wanted my biscuit at lunch and when I wouldn’t give it to her she twatted me”. Mum and Dad could hardly stifle their laughter and then had to explain what a twat actually was.
xx
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Merry (Sunday 27th February 2011 @ 12:02 am) (Reply to this)
I love the thoughts about being trustworthy :) I want my daughters to know that about me too.
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ella (Monday 28th February 2011 @ 11:02 am) (Reply to this)
Love this, we’re very alike I think, and I LOVE dancing around the kitchen with my children, it’s the best thing ever and I can never stay grumpy for long!
(Sorry you were stressed getting this posted, but I loved reading it so thanks for joining in x)
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What a lovely thought to write this all down. I hope you don’t mind if I do something similar and link back to you?