Just Kristin

While it was bound to hap­pen, and though I can­not say that I am dis­pleased with the sit­u­a­tion, I nonethe­less can­not but feel a bit odd and old when I tell y’alls that my daugh­ter, the Smoop­ster, has begun men­stru­at­ing…get­ting a monthly deliv­ery of a box of red roses…taking a lit­tle ketchup with her steak…getting vis­its from aunt Flo…occasionally clos­ing for maintenance…having her ter­ror­ist alert go to code red…having com­mu­nists invade her sum­mer house…joining the hunt for red October…taking her meat rare…brewing on auto-drip…painting the town red…punctuating…rebooting the ovar­ian oper­at­ing system…seducing the vampires…sitting on a nice merlot…getting her oil changed…letting Mother Nature stay at her hotel…offering the sacrifice…counting down from egg #180…having her walls repainted…receiving her monthly statement…reapplying her lipstick…playing the Red Sox while they are in town…riding the cot­ton pony…having her pixies…taking Car­rie to the prom…surfing the crim­son tide…warring in Virginia…putting too much sauce on the taco…having vis­its from the Car­di­nal… Enough? Hey, if I can’t laugh about it, find joy in it, then I will just have to be sad about aging. Any­way, I have come to love my peri­ods — I think of them as healthy and pow­er­ful (cheesy and new-agey tho that sounds) and I hope she does too. We will be par­ty­ing Mon­day night in cel­e­bra­tion of the event. Huz­zah! Every change and devel­op­ment in her that I am priv­iledged to wit­ness is a fan­tas­ti­cally mag­i­cal thing.

§ One Response to “Periodicals”

• Karin says:

  10/31/2004 at 10:10 am

  Con­grats to Smoo on “join­ing the club”. :) I got a lit­tle misty-eyed think­ing some­day my lit­tle hitch­hiker will be going through that too! I’m not ready for it yet, though, so I’m glad I have quite a few years to pre­pare. Good for you mom for being positive!