Age inappropriate behavior
I was planning on posting about Isabella’s greatly improved handwriting and show a birthday card that she wrote without help. But, I’m too annoyed to celebrate success. In the shower today, my very precious Aveda shampoo and conditioner bottles were upside down. The way any use-to-the-last drop consumer keeps her personal products when they are almost finished. Impossible. I just paid good money for brand new, nearly full bottles of shampoo and conditioner. They were totally empty. Nothing in them for even a last wash. I began to sob. And not because I would not be able to style my […]
Outer body experience
Sadly, not every day is a step forward. There are days that I’d rather forget about and pretend that never happened. Yesterday was one of those days. It seemed to be as typical day before school started. Get up late. Hang out. Make declarations of boredom. Go to the farmer’s market. Eat dinner. Something went very wrong at bedtime. It was one of those outer body experiences that children have at ages five or six and younger, not at 13. These are not that common, but a reminder that Isabella still has a journey ahead of her.