My eldest daughter grows up
by DannyUK
At 13 years of age, my eldest daughter can still surprise me.She’s at an age where hormones are raging, and she can swing from moody and spiteful to sweet and loving (and back again!) in minutes.
I still tend to regard her as my little girl. My first born who blew me away by coming into my life and being so fragile that she became my everything. It’s hard to believe that was 13 years ago. This weekend. she asked if she could make dinner for us all. Nothing overly fancy or complex, but dinner for five nonetheless. She’s made pizza from scratch at school in the past and wanted to have the autonomy to do it at home. It’s not the healthiest dinner in the world, but I agreed. She collated what ingredients she needed, tallied up what was missing and what we, therefore, had to buy from the shops. When dinnertime came, she made everything from scratch. The pizza base was scone-based, and within thirty minutes or so she had prepared, made and cooked pizzas for everyone. 
Childish, and nothing to do with the blog post aside from I know my eldest daughter will find it as funny as I do.
I know it’s a fairly simple meal, but the confidence she showed in doing it blew me away. Not only that but the pizza was possibly the best homemade pizza I have ever tasted! Sometimes I miss the fact that my kids aren’t babies or toddlers any more. But also, sometimes it’s quite nice to see them grow and show their independence.
they do tend to change a lot from babies to grown ups at this age, my nephew is 16 and now i can only remind myself of those days when we had fun together, these days its phone and his own mates
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Children grow up so quick, we do need to cherish every moment.
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I’ve just thrown a spider out of the window – feeling very relieved typing this in bed.
I’m impressed at your daughter’s organisation skills – cooking for 5. Did she (icing on cake) clear up the kitchen after the meal?
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Hahahahaha! Tidy up, that’s a good one! To be fair, she tidied a little, just not to a standard that any adult would want!
Fantastic about the cooking – not sure about the picture though, it was on my screen when my kids came in?!
#FamilyFriday
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Good point. I’ll put something in the title to warn people.
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on May 4, 2014 at 10:22 pm
After reading this, I’m now looking forward to the day that our one year old son cooks dinner for my wife and I. Love the cartoon about the spiders!
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Lovely post – I have 11 more years til that age though, and they’re boys so I shan’t expect it haha!
(Now I want pizza)