Someone is watching me, someone is copying my every move, I am being followed and my words are being repeated. Sounds scary doesn't it? I am sitting here observing Tayah play and it is a wee bit frightening. She is essentially reinacting how I go about doing things throughout my day. Everything, from gathering the baby and her purse as she is on her way out the door to an imaganary friends house, I hear a "see you later guys" and she is off. She then quickly reimerges as she remember she doesn't have her keys and throughout the house you can hear her calling out "where's my keys? have you seen my keys? where my keys goes? This is looking and sounding way too familiar! Next I watch as she disciplines her baby, "look at me, look at me, baby look at me, look at me. You better listen, you hear me, better listen baby, look at me. You go to yer room." I am quite relieved to hear her say all this in a calm voice because quite honestly, she doesn't always hear it in such a calm voice. Talk about someone keeping you accountable! I am suddenly feeling very overwhelmed at the huge responsibility of raising a child. Perfection is unattainable, I am bound to mess up and to me, that is a scary realization. I hope and pray that my children grow up to be happy well rounded adults and that I am able to teach them and instill in them good morals and values. I hope that I am able to model for them what it is like to have grace and compassion for others and also how to forgive others when they have wronged you. I have a feeling that I will be coming to them on many occassions to ask for their forgiveness, I think I may have to start practicing humility as well :)