10 Lessons My Daughter Could Teach Me

Good Morning! It's 6 am here, a time of day that I prefer to not see. As in, I should be curled up beneath blankets, blissfully unconscious. I am not a morning person, especially when pregnancy insomnia has me averaging 3 hours a night.

When my husband left for work this morning, our daughter who normally sleeps until 8:30 was wide awake and trying to talk to him through the baby gate. So, my sweet husband kisses me goodbye, and lets me know he's going to tell her to go back to bed so I can get some more sleep.

I hear the door close, and the wailing starts.

"Daddy home! Daddy hooooome!!!"

Uh oh.

I let it go, and hope she'll go back to sleep. No such luck. 20 minutes later she's still crying, and I pull myself from the safety of my bed and go to set her free. She wraps her little arms around me in a huge hug, and asks with a pout, "Daddy work?"

"Yes sweetheart, Daddy went to work." And the sun's not even awake yet, why are you??

So right now she's watching early morning cartoons while Mommy is trying to drink enough coffee to be able to see straight. It's a good thing she's so cute.

I hope all my visitors from Mama Kat's have the pleasure of reading this much later in the day than I'm writing it, and enjoy this list of 10 lessons my daughter could teach me.

1. "Pretty hair" and "pretty shoe" are very important to have before you go out.
2. A shopping trip without a stop by Target is just not the same.
3. Half a cup of chocolate pudding is the best dessert to get when you've been a good girl all day.
4. "Daddy home!" is the best part of the afternoon.
5. Pay attention to what's out the window. She's like a built in GPS when it comes to identifying buildings like "Mommy doctor" and "Grandma's house."
6. Writing to-do or shopping lists counts as coloring.
7. The best way to make a grumpy person smile is to wave and say hi, but I think it only works if you're short and wearing pigtails.
8. Some days, nap time sounds much better than finishing lunch.
9. Melted cheese can make anything taste good.
10. Anything can be fixed with a kiss, a bandaid, a snack, a nap, new batteries, hot glue, or clear duct tape.