Annoying genes

My daughter, Frida, is now 15 1/2 years old. In the picture she is 14, eating an ice-cream in Sacramento.

When I was her age, I also loved ice-cream. Sometimes I would be so desperate that I would eat ice-cream with my bare fingers, directly from its box in the freezer. If I went downstairs with a spoon, my mom would get too suspicious. For a while I also had a spoon hidden near the freezer. My mom wasn't particularly happy when we had guests and she took the ice-cream out of the freezer and found that it was near empty, and with marks of fingers in it...

Frida has never done the same (yet), but I notice that she becomes more and more like her mom (even in areas that she could not possible copy because I have changed since I was her age). I am not going to expose her here, but I know that she has also noticed that we are becoming more alike. I don't know who of us that is most scared and annoyed by noticing the influence of my genes :)

And even if there are similarities, we are also different in many ways. Frida is growing into a young woman with her own opinions, her own experiences and her own choices. I am very proud of her!