i love being a mom. i love being a parent, and just about everything that it entails. what i hate about being a parent is the comparisons, that seemingly everyone, even those who have good intentions, do. i mean, shoot, i even compare my girls with each other. kara is nothing like ariana was as a baby, except their voices. everything else is totally different. i hate that i find myself comparing them, though. “well, ariana was doing this, and kara is doing that”. etc. the part i really abhor (yeah, it’s that bad) is when people compare my child to their own, or someone else’s (in regards to baby development). i got it a lot with ariana, because she was so small. i had people saying “oh, MY daughter/niece/granddaughter is doing this. ariana’s just too small to do that yet”. or “is she doing this? so and so is”. and when she did finally catch up, it was “oh, she’s doing so *well*, in an “i’m so sorry” tone. here i was thinking that kara was already doing so much more sooner physically than ariana was, and yet, the comments are starting up again. “she’s not crawling yet?” sigh. am i just sensitive? probably. it takes a lot to rub me the wrong way, but for some reason this just does. i don’t know why it bothers me so. i guess i am more sensitive than i thought, and as much as i try not to let what people think get to me, i am human, and it does!  (rant over)