Last week I was perusing Pinterest, yes I’m addicted, and I came across an article that was titled 10 things you wish you had known about raising a toddler. Well that peaked my interest.

I am 50 so I am well past the age of raising toddlers. However I have 4 grand daughters toddler age and I see their moms often exhausted and puzzled about what in the world to do with these children. There are sleep issues, potty training issues, tantrums, all the things every mom goes through but is somehow

I am getting older, as a side effect so are my children. They are now having children of their own. They are learning the ropes of being a parent and making marriages work. My youngest child is about to leave on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, she’s 20 years old and so excited to go, but as I said she’s 20 and the youngest. So sometimes my kids get a little itchy under the collar when I continue to mother, they believe that as full grown adults in their late 20’s

Do you remember doing little home made crafts? You know the ones with construction paper, a little good old fashioned Elmers glue, maybe some crayons. I did them all the time with my kids. We had paper plate santas complete with a cotton ball beard, we had turkeys, sheep, pilgrims, everything went on the fridge or in the window to celebrate every holiday we could come up with.

I was looking through some photos today and came across this one of my grand daughter Cecily and her first official haircut.

Now as haircuts go, especially the first one, this was a superb haircut. But still, as cute as she is, she doesn’t look all that happy about it.

I began to remember all the first haircuts of my own children. Some involved bribery such as my husband standing in front of the child with a handful of m&m’s. Some involved tears. All of them took a great deal of patience. I