They are growing up

 

I’m not sure I’m ready for this.  I mean, I know I’ll get over it.  I’ll let them go, but it’s not easy.  Right now, they go to visit family friends; they go to dance and choir.  I don’t hang around.

 

This weekend Kristyn is going to a birthday party that no one else from the family is attending.  This is a first.  She is so excited.  They are going skating and then out for Pizza.  It will be a long day for her and I’m sure she will be tired when she gets home.  Because she is my most social child, she will be in her glory and will have a blast.

 

Cora is very disappointed that she was not invited too.  I don’t know why Cora wasn’t invited; both girls were playing with this little girl the other day.  But there will be things that Cora will be invited to attend that Kristyn won’t be.  I can’t shelter them forever.  I can’t expect them to attend the same activities with the same people all the time.  They need to develop their own personalities, likes and dislikes.  I want them to have their own friends.

 

Cora is less social than Kristyn by a LONG way.  She does rely on Kristyn I think to make their mutual friends.  I hope that she doesn’t feel left out all her life.  I don’t know how to encourage her to make friends that aren’t Kristyn’s friends.  Kristyn is a very dominate personality and tends to take over, even if Cora started the friendship.

 

Marrissa has been making her own friends too.  Tammy-Lee’s niece and Marrissa have play-dates at Tammy-Lee’s home.  They LOVE it.  (Tammy-Lee included.)  Marrissa comes home and tells me all about her day – Polly Pockets, movies, Barbies, the lunch menu and snacks.

 

Wyatt has a little friend, too.  We haven’t been able to get together lately as both families have been quite sick.  One day, when the weather is better and the germs go away!

 

I don’t know if I’m ready for this.  All my kids going in separate directions.  They are too young; I’m not ready to let go of this strings yet.

 

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