I called it.....

I knew the other shoe would drop.....it did and it definitely wasn't anything I could have purchased at Nordstrom or even Target for that matter. Whyyyyyyyy?? Why can't I have just like two normal non dramatic days in a row with this child? Great night last night, great day at school helping in her room, and now she's off to her violin lesson in tears because I told her she couldn't chew a big wad of gum during it. I know as much about violin as I do plumbing but I'm pretty sure you hold the instrument with your jaw right? Wouldn't it hinder the violin playing experience if your jaw was moving up and down?

I'd like to say well the honeymoon period is officially over after 6 months of bliss but then I think what honeymoon?? More like honeyMOOD!

Maybe she's more moody, sneaky, and defiant because it's winter time. I have a friend that always decides to move cities or do something drastic with her hair (that she inevitably regrets) every February, most suicides happen in January, couples usually split up at the first of the year, and I know personally I struggle every winter not to go full blown seasonal depression (with or without the 15 year old Indian daughter constantly sulking) and get a big tattoo of a black skull. Maybe she's getting comfortable and trusts us and she's pushing? Maybe she's pissed off about the fact that she was orphaned and then had to be adopted which meant leaving her foster family and she's acting out. Maybe she just hates it here and all the expectations/responsibilities that come with having parents. Who freaking knows.

Every time I think we've made strides in one area there's a big ole pot hole just ready to flatten us out somewhere else. I give up. Going to go lay down in the street now......