when i was growing up, it was annoying that my parents were so overprotective. and yes i thought they obviously have good reason to be paranoid about my where-abouts every second of my days, since i was doing the very things they were afraid of behind their back all along. but it still seemed extreme. they didn't want me dating really at all in high school, i couldn't hang out with "bad" kids...pretty much anyone who didnt go to our church wasn't a good influence on me.  i needed to eat my wheaties every morning.. and i had to call them when i got to any and every destination! it seemed outlandish! i knew someday when i would be a parent that i would most likely be just like them, but i hoped i wouldn't be.
now that dahlia is here, i am already concerned about who she will want to date and who her friends will be and what clothes or music she'll be into. i find myself thinking of ways that we can subtly convince her that she doesnt need to like boys until shes at least in her 30's.... and how we can shape her into a female version of Jesus! i know that sounds absurd, but i'm realizing that that is what i am expecting us to accomplish. i know that that is impossible, and she'll never live up to that, but something inside me really hopes that we can raise a child better than anyone else. i  need to stop having these expectations of us,and just do our best to raise a godly child and not think of ourselves as failures if she ends up making a few bad decisions in her lifetime! because she is only human after all. and so are we(=
furthermore she is only 2 months old! there is still plenty of time to strategize (=