My adult daughter moved back in with me a couple of years ago. It has been such a blessing to have my sweet child of God back in my home but not without challenges. There is a personality difference between her and I. I am a morning person and she is not.

I wake up with a smile on my face and ready to chat it up a bit. She wakes up with a frown and growls when I start chatting. Sometimes I just ignore the frown and start chatting anyway. There have been a few times when she has warmed up and I get a conversation going but most days it is a futile attempt.

I was thinking about this the other day and realized that even though I am a ray of sunshine in the morning, if I have had a hard day at work, I am a thunder cloud in the evening. She is different. She is happiest when she has come home from a day of working for Michael Korrs. She loves that job, even though some days she has been on her feet for 6-8 hours in 5 inch heels. Love that girl!

I usually try to put a smile on my face for her in the evenings. I know that if she is going to talk she will be talking at this time, not in the morning. At times we have had wonderful conversations.

I am trying to learn to be quiet in the morning and if need be, I talk to my cats. They always purr so I figure they are okay with it.

I think that people often try to change others into what we are so that we will be more comfortable. Sometimes it is better to accept the differences in others and change yourself to make them more comfortable .