13 going on 30

Growing up is never easy, but you get to hold on to the memories that were, and look forward to the memories to come. 

It's crazy how fast life changes, it's like you just wake up one day and realize you're not fifteen anymore.. going from being upset that you have an early curfew to wishing you could talk your parents in to making all the hard decisions for you. When you would do anything you could to get out of going to class to doing anything you can to be able to afford to go to class. 

 

With growing up comes the reality that you are the person you always looked up to. You learn the responsibility of paying your own bills, making your own dinners, and having to wake yourself up every morning. As you get older you realize the rules that seemed so unfair at the time ended up doing nothing but helping you. We've all been grounded for having bad grades, coming home late, or talking back. Now that we're more mature we can realize that mamma really does know best. We didn't appreciate the punishments at the time, but now we wish we could have those instead of having to learn it the hard way. Through all the rules it was hard to see how much your parents did for you, when all they want for you is the best.

Needless to say, as annoying as growing up can be sometimes, we can't argue that it's an amazing learning experience, and we've had a lot of fun going through it.