What? Me??

Organized.  That would probably be the word that most people would use to describe me.  Which everyone knows really means that I am a very detail oriented person who is anal retentive, and maybe a little bit of a control freak.  I like things a certain way, I like things clean and sleek.  I hate clutter.  I like to have a plan in place for everything I do.  One of my favorite things to do is get a new planner and rewrite my calendar.  I don’t like surprises; I like to know what is coming ahead of time so that I can contemplate my plan of attack.  I know I am this way, and I am okay with it.  Both my husband and I like to plan and organize most things in our lives. Do I secretly hope my daughters get this trait as well??  Why, yes, yes I do.  Detail oriented people know how to get things done, how to make a clear decision and make it happen.  It means my daughters will hopefully be strong women that know what they want in life and how to get it.  At the same time, it also means they will have to be hard workers (also not a bad trait) because detail oriented people end up doing more work themselves rather than delegating…that would be that darn control freak issue popping up!  Essentially, I think the pros outweigh the cons in this situation.  The real trouble is how do I instill this trait in my girls without pushing them in the other direction?  Will they just pick up on it from the way my husband and I live our lives?  Or will they see the way we have chosen to live our lives and run in the other direction?  I know that I am rubbing off on my oldest already.  How do I know this you ask?  Well, why most young kids just color with their crayons, probably leave them all over the floor, my girl likes to take all her crayons out and lay them in a line by color.  She then proceeds to put them all back into the container in order nice and straight.  When I ask what she is doing, she tells me she is playing “organizing”.  J  That’s my girl!  I wish there was a sure fire way to encourage the hard working, decisive, organized traits into the girls without the anal retentive, and control freak issues creeping in there as well.  Oh well, I guess I will just take what I can get and hopefully I don’t screw them up too badly, but that’s something I won’t know until they are 18 and can tell me how I did as a parent J