Life is Beautiful and Teens are Awesome
The last couple months or so have been crazy busy.
We moved in the fall (that is a huge story that eventually I will tell, when I have time, and words). Es started volunteering at the library. Rach got a job, then lost it due to age restrictions (company policy vs store policy.)
The kids are all teens now, and wonderful, awesome, brilliant, fun to be around, and all busy with their own stuff. I don’t post things about them unless they give permission (never have) and now they are older and more private about their stuff and well, I have less to share. We have several new projects we are working on as a family.
Life as we know it is swirling and changing and adapting. I go from times when the kids want all my attention and it is a swirl of activity to times where no one is around– all asleep, or busy with their personal projects, or talking to friends.
My own projects go in spurts. In this season they often get set aside to talk out personal issues with the kids, discuss how somethign works or why, or how people work or think or why people can be dumb sometimes.
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It is all such a whirl of color and activity interspersed with times of quiet and nothing that it is hard to keep track of coming or going.
THIS is how geeks spend Thanksgiving. Dungeons .and Dragons Clue plus Sheetz takeout.
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Our big current project – the kids and I (I’ll let Shamus share his own as he sees fit) is body butters. (For sale here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SeriouslySimpleStuff) They are fun to make and pretty and the kids love them as much as I do.
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And how cute did the single Valentine’ s gift wrap turn out.
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And there is more happening but I will leave it for now. Life is beautiful, and fun, and wonderful. We have a new warm, safe place to live that is everything we could have asked for, if we had thought to do so. This season with teens is absolutely awesome.
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I hope to someday make choices that end up at least half as well as this. Glad you’re doing so well.
Yay! Glad to hear the move went well, and that everyone is growing up! Got a lot of signal from Shamus before the move, but not much afterward. Keep up the good all y’all!