Life with a teenager can be stressful, to say the least. Life with more than one teenager in the house can try the patience of even the most mild-mannered person. Life with teenage identical twin girls is a daily mixture of drama, comedy, emotional outbursts and more stress than I ever imagined possible. Don't get me wrong, I love my girls more than life itself and they are good girls. Of course, they have gotten in their fair share of trouble, but they haven't gotten caught doing anything illegal (that I know of!) and they are, for the mostpart, respectful. Before I share my stories and words of wisdom from my teenage daughters, let me give you a brief history of our lives together.
I remember that day 18 years ago as if it were yesterday. The doctor saw those two heartbeats on the ultrasound screen and his comment was "you really did it this time!" My husband and I looked at the screen in total disbelief. We were having twins; from that moment on our lives would never be the same. Eight months later I held those two beautiful little girls for the very first time. They were perfect in every way; tiny gifts from God and I felt so blessed to have been chosen to be their mom. At that moment, I had no idea what the future would hold for my new family.
As the girls grew, we began to see how different, but still how alike they were. Autumn and Summer were completely identical. We had to use a red birthmark on Summer's forearm to tell them apart. It also didn't take long for the girls to figure out just how identical they were. They figured out how much fun they could have tricking people posing as each other. When they started school, I would send them with different color headbands, bows or barrettes and tell the teacher which was which when I dropped them off. Within the first couple of weeks of school, they figured out that if they switched their headbands, the teacher couldn't tell apart, so that became a favorite pasttime for a year or two. Autumn and Summer were inseparable. They also had a language of their own that only they could understand. Autumn would start a sentence, Summer would finish it. Summer would make up a song; Autumn would start singing along and they both made up the same words as they sang. It was really kind of freaky; it was like one brain with two bodies.
Life was never dull at our house. Everyday presented new opportunities for the girls which they never passed up. Summer was the idea person, and Autumn never hesitated to try these ideas out. One day Summer wondered what would happen if they put pool swimmies around their ankles instead of their arms. Luckily, my husband was standing closeby as he heard the "glub, glub, glub" of the two of them stuck underwater. He pulled them both up by the legs and as they dangled upside down from my husband's hands, they looked at each other and laughed. This is when I knew my "cute, adorable" little twin girls, were growing into fearless, adventure seekers and that hasn't changed to this day.
Here we are, back to present day and my little adventure seekers haven't changed much. They have a twisted sense of humor, which I do have to say they inherited from their parents, so they try to find humor in just about everything they do (or get caught doing). Over the past year or so, we have had Summer fall off a moving vehicle as Autumn filmed it ("making a really cool video for YouTube"), and both of them climbing out the bedroom window to meet boyfriends (mind you, their bedrooms are on the second floor.) I never will figure out how they climbed back up into the house without falling and breaking something or waking us up. Summer talked a carload of her friends into skipping school, only to have the principal call me at home looking for her (busted!!!!) and the constant stream of friends and boyfriends passing through our house has been a learning experience in itself. Autumn also now has her driver's license, so a whole new world of adventures has opened up to them.
So all of you are going to be my support system. I am going to use this blog to post the latest antics in our household, and probably to vent my frustrations when necessary. Hopefully, this will be an enjoyable experience as you read what you "could" be going through, or fond (or maybe not so fond) memories of your own child's teen years and the drama that came along with it. Or maybe, you can just laugh and say " I am so glad it's her and not me. And for all the parents out there reading this with young children, just know your day is coming........
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