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*****(As Time Goes By–by Frank Sinatra)*****

My older daughter recently had her Thirty-Second Birthday…..

Wow…when did more than three decades pass by?………….It was so fast…..

Of course it went by…you silly old woman…you’re going to be seventy-one…do the math…..

Wow…..

My younger daughter’s going to be thirty-one this year too…..

Wow…..

Seeing the world out of my eyes…things haven’t changed that much…it seems about the same…(ish)…..

I do find mirrors more frightening now…and something to avoid…..

…..and getting out of the bathtub is quite convoluted…and flailing…and funny…..

But I think…I think about the same…I act about the same…..

But decades have passed…..

And it all just goes to show…they’ll let anybody be a Mother…..

…..I’m not sure I’d passed the Test…(if there was one)…..

I kind of raised my daughters like puppies…sometimes like feral puppies…(we’re all feral here)…..

I’m glad the Wolfhounds were by my side during my early child rearing…my children never had sticky faces…..

…..they never had spaghetti stuck in their hair…..

I did have to make allowances for extra snacks…taking into account how much the hounds would steal…..

But I do have to say…it helped my daughters to hone quick reflexes…while hiding their sippy cups and pretzels…..

…..(too bad the hounds didn’t have opposable thumbs…they could’ve helped me change diapers)…..

But with their hound noses…they did tell me when a change was needed…..

And tall fuzzy hounds standing patiently next to my youngest…helped her (with her low vision issues)…..

She’d grab onto their fur when she needed to stand up and balance and walk…..

Parenting can take many forms…..

…..Geese!  Louise!…..

And now all these years later…I’m going to be the next one with a sippy cup…and diapers…..

…..nope………….no diapers…..

We live so far out in the boonies…they’ll just rinse me off in the backyard with the garden hose…..

…..(that’ll be okay…as long as there’s mediocre bourbon in my sippy cup)…..

***Happy Birthday, Child of Mine***And Happy Unconventional Life***