Twin

Oh, do I feel old today!

Yesterday, I had youngest daughter from when she got out of school until late evening.  So she plays with her My Little Pony stuff, interspersed with naps and interpretive dance - LOL.

What made it weird was that she was wearing her mother's first competitive skating dress!  At the same age, almost the same height and build, mother and daughter were almost identical!  Except that daughter has longer hair.  Just too weird.

So I watched and remembered back 25 years and the budding athlete my daughter was becoming.  She went on to win every single event she entered!  And taking gold constantly was a real problem.  She was good and she knew it.  By 10 she could already do triples for all of the jumps - it was amazing those those short little legs had the strength for what she did!  She had a never ending list of talent scouts following her around and I got to start seeing the shady side of competitive skating.  And she was rapidly becoming unmanageable.

So, we sat down and had a war council ...

In the end she chose not skate ever again, than to clean her room and help around the house... she chose poorly, as her life has played out.

She could have had Olympic gold, but her independence was so terribly important that she blew off family and friends - for drugs and partying with her "friends".  Yeah, no rocket science there.

And here was her daughter, a vision of her, leaping and jumping about.
And my heart broke once again.
So much potential,
So wasted...
And I will fight grand-daughter ever doing competitive anything!