When They Start Giving Out Medals
Dec. 30th, 2007 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saavedra77I love my great-niece and great-nephew. They're great kids, each charming in her or his own way. Alexis is seventeen, bright, funny, confident, ambitious, wants to be a doctor. Jeremy is eleven, high-spirited, expressive, voluble, wants to be a rock star.
But between her occasional adolescent defiance, his hyperactivity, and their unending sibling rivalry, dealing with both of them at once can sometimes be a bit like living in The Village of the Damned.
I don't know how their mom manages to keep up with them, but I have to admire her for it. If they ever start handing out medals for single motherhood, she deserves one with oak clusters.
But between her occasional adolescent defiance, his hyperactivity, and their unending sibling rivalry, dealing with both of them at once can sometimes be a bit like living in The Village of the Damned.
I don't know how their mom manages to keep up with them, but I have to admire her for it. If they ever start handing out medals for single motherhood, she deserves one with oak clusters.
