Look a likes...

I've listened to my mom say to Adri, for the past 3 years, "You're so much like your mother."  Sadly, it's not usually when she's doing something phenomenal.

Adri tries to zip her coat and I offer to help.  Adri stomps her foot and says, "NO I WANNA DO IT BY MYSELF!"  My mom says, "You're so much like your mother."

Adri throws a fit and hits the floor because she wants to do something her way and we've told her no.  My mom says, "You're so much like your mother."

Adri thinks she has to eat almost every minute of everyday and my mom's response to that is, "She's so much like her mother."

Adri INSISTS on wearing a dress most days and argues with me profusely about how she won't be cold.  My mom says, "You're so much like your mother."

She's also done a few ornery things, as well, and upon relaying Adri's mischief to my mother, she reminds me that Adri is "so much like her mother."

Now, I've cautioned my mom, several times.  "Please don't say that in front of her.  I don't want her to think it's a bad thing to be like me.  After all, I'd consider it an honor if someone said I was like my mom (I've got a big favor to ask you later...just kidding).  But, overall, she's right (Wow, that's two HUGE compliments in one day...you're welcome, Mom).

There's the time I put panty liners in my shoes because I thought they'd make me run faster and I once left our miniature poodle, Shelly, in the refrigerator because she was in my arms and I saw something in there I'd rather have more (food).  I used to cry and scream when I didn't get my way and admittedly, threw a coffee mug through the screen of our TV when I was little because things weren't going 'Mandy's way."

It's scary, isn't it...thinking about your kids turning out just like you?  But, overall, I think I was a good kid.  I never did anything too terrible (other than the TV thing...and I may or may not have tore up the back seats of my mom and dad's mini van because I stole a grocery cart from Payless), and as a teenager, rarely gave my parents much worry.  I've made pretty good choices as an adult and haven't tortured my parents by moving their grandkids to the other side of the world or anything (which I've threatened to do).  So, I guess if Adri turns out like me, it's not such a bad thing.  But, God, please don't let her talk to me as a teenager the way I talked to my mother! That is all...thank you and Amen!

 We do look a little alike, don't we?  You're right...she's cuter!