Obsessed!

Lately I can't seem to hear anything except how crazy my kids are for horses! I mean really. You can take the girl off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of her DNA? I don't really like animals. I know I did when I was young, in all the romantic ways children do. I fell in love with a little runt of a border collie and my mom actually let me have it. Or rather, she took care of the poops and pees in the back entry in the winter, and heard him whining and barking as he grew too big for the space we had - It was from that learning experience that I found out something about myself. I'm just not an animal person. Some are, some aren't. I like them in the sort of way I like mascots - cute and fun for a few minutes, but after that they'd better get moving on.

It may be that loving animals is a crazy part of girls hormones that strikes in the pre-pubescent teenie bopper. Every chance she gets she's surfing Craigslist to see which horses are for sale. It's adorable.