is for...Parenting “Mommy what’s for dinner?” Said my 5-year-old “Food!” I answered exasperated. That was question number 20 in under five minutes and 10 were, “What’s for dinner?” I shake my head thinking that my mother cursed me. She told me just like she told my other sisters that she could not wait for us to have kids so we can get a taste of our own medicine. She was right. I received mind tenfold. You see, I was a talker. I was an extreme motor mouth if you will. Everyone I met or encountered in my life has discovered that I have the gift of gab. Motor mouth. That is what they call me. But that word would not begin to describe my 5-year-old. Those are the moments when I feel that parenting is hard. Very hard. I grew up with lots of brothers and sisters and when the older ones started having kids, me and my two younger sisters were the designated babysitters. When my sister worked midnights, I would get up in the middle of the night...
