I shoot fireworks to keep young and stay sane.
With my three girls I can say third time was not the charm. That is because she is just like her mother and you know what they say. You can't to look at yourself sometimes. Really all three have turned out (are turning out just fine.)
No. 1 married an engineer and is a very desciiplined independent person. Her problem is that she believes everyone should make what she considers the right choices are and believes it its her job to tell them when they stray. Lives close by and her two children are very close to us.
Daughter No.2 is too independent. She is small and frail, but won't allow anyone to help. If a guy opened a car door for her sh'ed quickly point out she was capable of doing that. I fear she has an eating disorder. She was sexually abused by someone she baabysat for at the age of fourteen. I don't think we handled it very well. She works full time and is a sophmore in college. She could get special consideration and take her test orally because she has a severe learning disability. However, She prefers to prove she can do it like everyone else. She studies four times as hard to get a B. Persistence is her strong point.
Daughter No3. Has given us grief. By defience in all categories. Yes , we saved her many times because she has two children. Currently going through another divorce ( at age 24) in NM. It's the children I worry about. With two different fathers they could be seperated. I will say she loves them and she does take good care of them.
Just like me. ( no divorces) but challenge me and I'll prove you wrong. She has many health challeges also. Her Marfans is my greatest concern because she lives two hours from a descent hospital. If her heart disects she will not make it.
All my daughters are jealous of each other. I can't ever see them being really close. They are all to worried about what the other one is getting or what the other one is doing wrong. Miracles do happen though. I have many good reasons to never speak to my sister again, but I do just because I want that example for my girls.
What can Say as a mother I love them all, and If I blow myself up their father will be rich.