The "Little Me" in Her

My personality- sometimes (blessedly, not ALWAYS) - periodically surfaces in her, my lovely five and a half year old Hannah. Hannah the willful, the politically and socially aware, the neat-nick, the opinionated, the creative, and the leader.

But also, I see in her, many attributes of my sister, with whom both Hannah and I live. In my daughter, I admire the innate sensivity she has concerning other people's feelings, the inner-charm, the polite and well-mannered side.

She is, to sum it up, well-rounded. There is very little she has gotten, other than her looks (which are - and I admit I am biased - very lovely) from her father, with whom she has not lived since she was an infant.

I am proud to be her mother. I try to shield her from my "dark side" --my rather high-strung nature, my bullheadedness (born of being a lawyer, although there are many who would say that my stubborness preceeded my law degree, and they are most surely right). Alas, a leopard cannot change his spots, nor a lawyer her edginess.

Instead, I attempt to share with her what I consider my strengths, and can only hope to downplay what I recognize as my less desirable traits.

Hannah, however, weathers it all wonderfully, culling from the myriad sides of my nature, the objectionable ones, and assuming as her own my more admirable facets. She is uniquely Hannah. There is no other.

Her humor, which she uses to charm and which I have used to survive, she springs on people unawares, and this includes me. Last Friday, I told her that on Monday I would serve as parental chaparone on her school trip to the zoo.

She said "is tomorrow Monday?" I told her that tomorrow was Saturday and asked her "what day comes after Saturday?" Hannah said "Monday."

I looked at her and said "put on your thinking cap, Hannah!" To which she said, "Mama, I only have a little thinking cap, so I can only think a little!"

I look into her beautiful blue-green eyes and I know: she thinks a lot!

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