My baby is a teenager!

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Lucy is 13 today! Wow.  I'm totally, legitimately Parenting Adolescents! (old reference for those who have known me forever).  Life is GOOD with two teenagers in the house.  It's been a year of intense togetherness and aloneness.  We spent many hours doing activities we enjoyed as a foursome, but also I think we each had more alone time than ever before.  It wasn't a year of making new friends, experiencing new places, trying new activities but it still provided plenty of personal growth opportunities.  Lucy has proven herself to be an exceptional student.  She grasps new concepts quickly, she is organized and has excellent time management skills, and she is engaged with the content.  She has deepened already existing friendships with school friends, her best friends Lily and her cousin Alethia during HOURS upon HOURS on facetime.  Her personality is so much like Bruce's.  It’s like watching a duck in a pond. ....being with her is relaxing.  She is fun and clever and peaceful.  But underneath the water, those feet are paddling hard.  There is so much going on in her mind all the time, big thoughts and big feelings that she only reveals occasionally to those closest to her.   It's so fun to watch Lucy discovering more and more of who she is and her sharing those revelations with us.  She is an incredible human now and I suspect she's only going to get better from here.  



Birthday Interview

 

Age? 13

 

Grade? 7th

 

Your teachers this year? Mr. Hambidge, Mr. Young, Mr. Emerson, Ms. Prevette, Ms. Sweeney, Ms. Lile, Ms. Bailey, Mr. Sparks, Mr. Wood, Ms. Russell, Ms. Dugger, Ms. Dickerson

 

What activities/sports/clubs were you involved in this year? COVID-19 survivialists, Future Problem Solvers, Academic Team, Band, Beta Club

 


What pets do you have? a fish tank and Cookie

 

What do you want to be when you grow up? a lawyer

 

Where is 1 place you really want to go? Scotland


 What is your favorite………….

 

Subject in school? English

 

Meal? Lasagna Soup

 

Fruit? Raspberries

 

Vegetable? English cucumbers

 

Dessert? Ice Cream

 

Candy? Hi-Chew

 

Drink? La Croix (like mother, like daughter?)

 


 

Spirit Animal?  a fish

 

Thing to do inside? watch tv

 

Thing to do outside? run

 

Kind of music? indie rock

 

Song? I've got some falling to do by Lemon Demon


 Place we visited this year?  Cape Cod (literally the only place we went)

Chore around the house?  taking out recycling


Thing to do with Mama? watch tv shows ( we love our Criminal Minds!)

 



 

Thing to do with Papa? go on walks

Thing to do with Griffin? talk

 T.V. show? Haikyuu

 

Movie? Spirited Away


 App? YouTube

 

Book? Hollow City

 

Day of the week? Saturday

 

Holiday? Christmas

 

Season? summer

 


Piece of clothing? button down shirts

 

Sound? the opening of a La Croix can

 

Word? moss

 

Smell? brownies

 

Color? green

 


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