Save the Drama for your Mama...wait--that's me...OH NO!

I have twins, currently they are three and full of all sorts of opinions and theories on how to manage one's life. We have a boy and girl set of twins {Did I just hear a gasp?} You were probably gasping out of joy and excitement like we were when we first learned our children's gender---the day they were born. Now, we gasp because boys and girls are so very different. Being a girl I've never had figure out or worry about the differences of being a boy other than the random pleadings of a teenager imploring to her mother that a baby brother should not get pointy cowboy boots no matter how cute you think he looks, but I digress.

I thought the boy would be harder to parent---don't get me wrong he is NOT a piece of cake, but I can easily figure out his needs: Where's my baseball cards? Why can't I wear this shirt everyday for two weeks? She hit me first.... you see where this is going right?

My daughter on the other hand who I thought would be the easier of the two {and to her credit sometimes she is} can be the most difficult. She screams. Not the normal three-year old scream. It's an octave that I didn't know even existed and I fear that one day she will actually scream so loudly that the cemetery occupants will stop by and ask us to lower the noise level. We don't encourage the screaming, we are firm with her and she knows that it is not okay, but she still does it. I've asked other mothers about this and they nod their heads close their eyes ever so slightly as if lost in a torturous memory that, well, most likely involved screaming. So, I am comforted in the fact that this is not an experience unique to me or my daughter.

The best part of this little vignette is when I am surrounded by family and said family who shall remain nameless {rhymes with "Tom"} casually says, "you know, when you were little you had a set of lungs on you that could wake the dead too" gives a lingering smile and glides out the door chuckling softly.

Lesson Learned: Screaming apparently is genetic as are many other things of a flawed personality  I'm sure {Great Cesar's Ghost!} and Ear plugs come in all sorts of pretty new fashions now.