She Loves me She Loves me not...today, she loves me...

Teen age daughters... need I say a whole lot more? If you have read even a few of my past posts, you realize I struggle with Tyler and her manner of treating humans. Lately... mostly today, she has been a bit human herself and nearly nice. Cleaning out my computer bag looking for my USB drive I found a small folded paper... upon opening it, I realized it was a note from Tyler... it reads, "Mom, I hope you find this soon. I love you even when you don't think I do. Also, I traded out pencils for your cool one. Love ya lots, Tyler"... Now, I realize the loving note might have been a massage to overshadow the fact that she took my favorite mechanical pencil, but I guess I am desperate and will take what I can get. The sappy part or the desperate part is that I taped the note to the front of my desk file so I can see it when I am seated at my desk working. Wow! I see this through a different lens telling my blog the story... but I stick by my note - she loves me today and we have not fought yet today and I am getting ready to go to bed, so one fight free day is a winning streak in our house. Tomorrow I have school until late so maybe I just won't answer my phone, text messages, or listen to voicemail and we can have a two day streak of luck :)... Oh the joy of motherhood... it is everything I wanted and a few extra lessons that I suppose I deserve to teach me some empathy for my own mother and sibling and well my whole darn family and circle of friends - you have to wonder when the same daughter than troubles me so is described as being so much like her mother - wow... I will have to think about that some more and rationalize that one a bit in another blog on a different day... maybe when I am not so full of love.