Not Your Typical Mother Daughter Project

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The bathroom faucet was busted, and I was determined to fix it. That’s right: mama was going to fix the sink all by herself (well by herself and a YouTube tutorial).

As I started, I decided an even better idea was for this to be a mother-daughter project. You know, a stake in the ground in me showing my girl that we can do the hard things that we, as women, may typically ask a man to conquer. Don’t get me wrong, I’m so thankful for a husband that normally would take on this task, so this was not a man-bashing moment. Rather it was an empowering moment for us as gals to learn something new, and out of our comfort zone.

Well, that was the intent.

What actually happened? Miss A, she was not in the very least interested in this empowering moment (the moment intended to propel her into thinking she can do anything she set her mind to). Instead she kept me company; after all, I was a captive audience for her, laying halfway under the cabinet trying to unscrew the faucet. At one point, midway through when her talking wouldn’t stop, and as I lay there uncomfortably wedged under the bathroom cabinet, water dripping on me trying to get the blasted thing to unscrew in- I may have regretted asking her to join me. After a few tears of frustration on my part with the difficulty of the faucet, she offered to turn on music to cheer me up.

She found the Disney station on Pandora. We sang.

And eventually accomplished our goal.

Later, we had dinner with a friend and were discussing our day. She excitedly told of our sink experience: “I calmed mom down by turning on Lion King music when she got upset.”

Not exactly the empowering motivation I had hoped to pass along to my only daughter- but in the end we didn’t give up, we didn’t have to tough it out and pretend to be emotionless about it, and we learned that a little music and singing will get you through a tight spot.

After all: Hakuna Matata.

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