I was very young when I had her, only 18 years old and terrified of getting it wrong! I wasn't perfect as a parent, we all make mistakes but my daughter assures me that I'm a great mum and thats good enough for me.
Growing up my daughter was a good kid. By no means was she an angel though! I remember clearly one day, her dad was trying to see what was wrong with our washing machine and I asked her to go and ask him how it was going, she came back 2 minutes later and said "Dad says it's fucked!", it took me a second to register what she'd said and at that moment she burst into tears and ran to her bedroom thinking she was in trouble while I collapsed on the floor laughing so hard that my face hurt and I was crying. She was only about 4 years old at the time and only repeating what her dad had said so I wasn't going to shout at her (like I could have without laughing anyway!) for it, besides she was punishing herself enough. Another time we were on holiday at a caravan, it was really windy outside and she kept playing with the door handle. I told her several times to stop or the wind would catch the door but she didn't listen. The wind caught the door and she got sucked outside, her dad jumped up to go check on her while I again burst into hysterical laughter. Her dad made me go into another room while he calmed her down because my laughing was making it worse.
At school she was an eager learner. Always getting good marks on tests (ok, she struggled a bit with maths) and nice in class etc. I never had a bad report card, I was never called into the school because she was in trouble and she was friends with everyone (until high school teenage drama of course!). Her teachers always found it strange that she was good at both art and science but I was always the same too, I think most people are maybe better at one than the other? I don't know. Her favourite subject was always English though, she always had her head in a book growing up and even now she likes to sit and read when she has time.
Video games are also a huge passion of hers. Since she was little and playing kids games on a PC to various consoles now. There was a huge surprise for her once as her stepdad had always said "I won't have a wii in this house!" and then he bought her one for Christmas. I don't think she could believe it was real! He was just happy that she was happy and video games are one of the things they've bonded over.
Other things they have in common are their love of comic books and artwork (theres more too but this has a point). He used to be a graphic designer and she is about to begin studying 3D animation. Her artwork is amazing! I'm honestly not being biased here, she's really good and has actually sold some of her work. She was given an unconditional offer for the course she starts after summer based on how good her portfolio is. I'm so proud of her!
So! To my beautiful, creative, sarcastic, funny, amazing daughter Natalie. Happy birthday! I love you loads and I can't wait for the future!
Gigglesnort
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