{life with a curious and crazy officially 13 yr old}
My adorable little pea is now a teenager – when did that happen? She is a glorious young person with certainly a mind of her own. She’s kind, she’s ridiculously fashionable and funny, she’s smart and creative. Of course, she is woefully undisciplined (in the sense of having goals and dedication to less immediate tasks) and she is uninterested in expanding her world at the moment (she’s only barely a teen)…but these things will come when she is ready. She is such a free spirit, we have no intentions of dampening her light. We offer the tools (and instructions on how to use them best) and wait for her arrival.
With that said, she’s working on a few projekts – reflooring her doll house with popsicle sticks (she’s giving them nice wood plank flooring!, likely her real wish for her room), she’s learning how to use pastels (thank you, Grammy!), she’s writing an adventure novel, she’s learning new dances (very swing!). She’s waiting for the sun to come out to practice her all-terrain/mountain skateboard, and fix up her vintage bike.
For her birthday events so far, we got rained out for Old Orchard Beach but instead found an arcade with similar attributes (no rides but plenty of games and baskets of half decent food) — she’s never really been to these sorts of places and felt like an alien, but that was charming in and of itself. She wasn’t into any of the shooting or fighting games and only moderately liked the driving games but enjoyed Skee-ball, Basketball, throwing rings and balls at things, the claw games — she’s a doer (but not the ax throwing)! Then we came home and she splashed around the hose sprayer mat while Josh mowed and I gardened, then she painted our toenails. It was a lovely day.
She’s working the store for the next couple of days and then we are taking a much needed break just to be together. I think again, our plans are rained out/postponed, but we have a lot of house/yard work to do and there’s a new mini golf in the area we need to check out. We’ll get some folks together for some food and cupcakes and all will be well.
Happy Birthday, my lovely mischievous imp!
Rock Bottom Homestead 