Baby, I Was Born This Way!!

This post is going to be a little different. Let's talk about nature versus nurture. You know are you defined by heredity or your environment or both.  I fall on the side of both, personally. I don't know how many of you know this, but I'm adopted. If you saw me with my parents, you'd never know. I look so much like my family!  Just today, a guy at my parent's house was going on about how much I favor my daddy! We let him go on for a few minutes before telling him I'm adopted. He was floored!

I feel like I get a lot of my traits from my parents.  I'm not very organized, like my daddy. And neither of us can remember names worth a flip. I'm a huge reader, like my mama, and we both like word puzzles. And then there's our love of shoes. But there are many traits that don't come from either of them. I have a temper like you wouldn't believe. And my daddy is very, very slow to anger. I am so not domesticated and don't care to learn. But I grew up watching my mama cook and sew and knit and cross stitch and macrame.  And my politics couldn't be more different from their's.

So I said all that to tell you that my daughter wants to learn to sew.  She is very crafty. This people is an example of nature.  Ben's mom, who disowned us a couple of years ago, is very crafty. She is Martha Stewart, as is his sister.  But Leah hasn't been around them much and not at all in the last 2 years. And though Mama used to do all that craft stuff, she hasn't done it in Leah's lifetime. And she certainly hasn't seen me do it! (I gave that child my hair and eye color and my temper and that's about it! LOL) So all that craftiness just came down thru the blood.

Last week, she decided she wanted to make a Domo. She's obsessed with this thing.  She found one to copy on the internet, I bought the supplies and she made it. She did it all, by hand.  I think she did a pretty good job for her very first sewing project.  Now, she wants to make more things.  And my boss was kind enough to pass along a beginner's sewing machine that had been her daughter's.  How sad is it that BEN is the one teaching Leah how to use it and not me?  I would like to say I care and that it bothers me, but it really doesn't!

Here's her creation:

Not bad, huh? It's a little rough around the edges, but it was her first sewing project! I think she did great! Other things she didn't get from me include her athleticism, her unlimited compassion for animals and her style of dress. Oy! I hate the way the child dresses!! LOL  But I love who she is and I love that she's strong enough in herself that she doesn't compromise that style for anyone. Actually, I love that AND I hate it.  That hard headedness? That came from me!

And, baby, she was born that way!!

I'm beautiful in my way,

'Cause God makes no mistakes
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way

Thank you, Lady Gaga!