Sibling Rivalry

Sure, he looks innocent, but those horns are a dead give-away to what lies beneath. Recently I have noticed a trend in the interaction between CR and me. When we don't see eye-to-eye on things, rather than me getting upset and him conceding to his wrongdoings or disobedient ways, we go back and forth in a sarcastic manner, with deep exasperated sighs and rolling of eyes (okay, so I am the one who rolls my eyes, but if he could do it, I am sure he would as well).

It's like we are carrying on a generational trend, but not really...let me explain.

Mimi and B sometimes bicker like siblings when they fight. When this happens, it's not really like a mother reprimanding a child, but more like two kids arguing over XY and Z topic. Each of them try to get in the last word, and CR and I tend to do the same thing. This is not to be critical of my husband and mother-in-law in the least, as the duo has fessed up to behaving in such a way. It seems as though CR and I are diving head-first into the questionable effective nature for patterns of debate in our family gene pool...B married a woman like his mother, and CR is following in his Daddy's footsteps...not in a "marry your daughter, and date your cousin," Southern sort of way, but in a personality sense.

I guess it's a good thing in a way, because CR does learn right from wrong, but in a playful manner, and he has picked up some of my sarcastic ways along the line as well...he will be good at dishing it out when the time comes. I know I look favorably on it now, but down the road, when the phone rings and it's CR's school principal on the other end, this will all bite me in the derriere, and I will deny ever praising him for his smart-ass ways...