Brat.

Madison and I struggle with each other all the time. She's at the age now, where she is really starting to assert herself. I know she is busy learning who she is, and what she's all about -- and a part of that requires her to test who she is apart from me. But BOY do I wish we could do that without the constant bickering!

She is 7 going on 17 for sure. If this is what life is now, it scares me to think what life will be like in another 10 years.

I know, that this too shall pass. And there are still moments where the teenage agressiveness that she seems to enjoy engaging in so much melts away... and for a moment, I have a little girl back again. Those moments are fewer and farther between now, but I guess that makes me cherish them all the more.