I am feeling extremely overwhelmed and excited to have a girl, but I question my future parent skills.
First Reason: I go look for clothes and all I see is frilly pink lace.
If anyone knows me very good, knows that I am not a frilly pink lace type of girl. Do I get the frilly pink lace or do I get the pink track suite with the pink pumas.
Don't even get me started on bows.
When I was a little girl I would have used bows to put around balls (get your minds out of the gutter, sports balls) and smash them in the mud and laughed. I love the cute little bows, but I still have this weird hold up. Next, DRESSES.
Dresses scare me the only time I ever wear dresses is to church and still I find myself not crossing my legs. The dresses are so cute but they really aren't that comfortable. You can't run and play NO! You must sit with your little legs crossed and act like a lady. I will give in, but just know when you see my frilly pink laced girl with a pretty little dress on and a cute little bow on her head just remember I am really doing this, BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT GIRLS DO! We are ladies! :)
Reason 2
Dance lessons! Just the two words scare me to death. What do I do when my little girl wants me to help her dance! What if she is really is good and loves it.
I really feel like my girl is going to be really girly and doesn't know why I don't know how to do a plea A (however the crap you spell that). What if she wants to CHEERLEAD!
No offense to the cheerleaders out there but when I played basketball and when they did all there little fingercrossing clap cheers when I was shooting free throws, I wanted to airball and hit them so bad with the basketball. Nothing against cheer leading, but what if my daughter really wants to be one. I will support her of coarse, but again she will wonder why I don't know what a toe touch is. These are real genuine fears I am having.
Last Reason:
Sewing and cooking. I don't know how to sew on a button I really hope my daughter doesn't ask for help in her home ec. class. I really don't know how I even passed.
If there is one thing I hate on this earth it is sewing, I would rather scrape stinky mink poop from wires with one hand and get bitten by a male mink on the other, than sew a QUILT! I am so glad I am not a pioneer lady.
Cooking I try to cook I do, but for the three years I have been married I have never baked. Actually I really can't ever remember baking cookies. (That just occurred to me, I really don't think I have ever baked cookies) My daughters going to want to make cookies, she really is. I really don't know if I am prepared for this whole girly thing, but I am excited to give it my best shot. Even if I burn cookies, stab a needle through my finger, or break my leg from a toe touch.
I am excited to have the chance to have a DAUGHTER!
You are hilarious! I felt the same way when I found out I was having a boy. I am so not into the boy things. But if you think about it a lot of things that girls like boys do too. In fact they should know most of the girly things. So it really isn't all that different. I plan to teach him the basics of sewing (I hate sewing too.) and he loves to make cookies. You will be a great mom to your little girl! Congrats!
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Hey Hannah! When we found out we were pregnant, I totally thought we were having a boy. (I even started preparing for a boy) But then not only did we end up having one girl, but two! I felt a lot like you. I've always thought that I could never raise a girl because I'm not all that girlie (sometimes I want to be but I just don't know how). But now that the girls are here, it's so much fun. Like you, I can't sow or dance or do a lot of things but that's okay. That's what friends and families are for :) As a parent, we may not be perfect, but we will teach them to the best of our abilities and love them unconditionally. Don't worry, everything will work out.
ReplyDeleteHahaha - I love it! So funny! Congrats on a girl though..!
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