Duendesday: Change In Action

{life with a curious and crazy almost 14 yr old}

She dances, she runs, she sews, she reads, she crafts, she whines, she makes messes, she leaves dirty dishes everywhere…she’s 13. It’s all good, even when it’s crazy-making.

Our Duende is a lovely person; she’s freaking funny as heck, creative and smart, confident and assertive, she knows what she likes. Right now, her favorite food is probably pickles but she says it’s pork chops with some nice roasted broccoli. And ice cream. She’s a junkie for ice cream. And gourmet cheese. Her favorite music right now is probably BLACKPINK or Ava Max or the soundtrack to Victorious (even Daddy likes MBFB, or at least, it’s stuck in his head and he’s willing to dance with her to it). Her favorite book series is probably the Sinclair’s Mysteries or the Graceling series but she’ll claim Snapdragon as her favorite book ever. But you can’t pin any of this kind of stuff down — she’s 13. There’s no definites.

And this week she loves her curls, last week — hated them. Last week she would never wear black, this week she’s going to Wednesday’s funeral. A month ago she was only ‘into pop’ but I swear I caught her singing along to the Grateful Dead with J the other day. Her life goal awhile ago was to go to Scotland to the James Herriott veterinarian school and now all she wants to do is go to Japan to hang out in a bunny cafe. Or maybe the Glasgow Arts University…(apparently, still Scotland, just a different school). But let’s get her through high school first. Our little imp still has a lot of changing to do.

Fluff it up.