"THE Talk"

At the end of fourth grade all the girls get "THE Talk", the Maturation discussion. Madison is in that grade and had that talk this last week. When Madison turned 8, I bought her the American Girl book, "The Care and Keeping of You." It's a great book that explains a lot about the changes your daughter will be going through as she gets older in a easy way. The book does have a lot of details that at the age of 8 I wasn't ready for Madison to know yet. So, I kept the book and read the things that only pertained to her being 8 years old. Well almost 2 years later, I broke out the book again and we went over it cover to cover. We also read another book that Grandma Hazen sent to her as well, "The LDS Girl's Guide to Real Beauty". I wanted to make sure Madison was taught about these things from me first. We had a great talk and lots of questions were asked and answered. I felt really good about what was said and taught. At the end I was looking at my sweet daughter telling her how fast she is growing up and how quickly life flies by when I noticed tears in her eyes. I asked her what was wrong and she said she doesn't want to grow up. I asked why and she said, "If I do, then I will have to leave you and Daddy." That made me cry! I explained to her that she'll never "really" leave me, but she'll go on to have her own family that will make our family larger. And that I'll always be her momma and she'll no matter how old will always be my baby.

It is hard and exciting to watch your child grow up, talks like these are bitter sweet! But, no matter how old she'll get, Madison will always be my baby. Right, Mom and Dad? Because I know I am still yours, you remind me of that everyday!