Oof. We have major kid drama going on here, even though our only involvement is that our kid is friends with the kids in the drama (which makes her involved, in kidland). We'd previously explained to her, with examples, why nothing she could do or be involved in would be outside our experience and we might have a moment of "what were you thinking ( Read more... )

It bothers me when things that are supposed to make people visible, make others invisible. Especially when the people that are being made invisible lack the same support networks that the now really visible people have ( Read more... )

Zoë decided to stop year round swim. That leaves her with one soccer team, and Girl Scouts. It's the lightest schedule ever and will hopefully help her manage her courses this year ( Read more... )

Zoë followed through on not rejoining her club lacrosse team and not going out for soccer at school. She's still waffling on what to do about year round swim, although seems more aware that she may not have the time it wants, especially if she wants to do the musical. It's interesting watching this period of growth ( Read more... )

Summer's almost over, though if Zoë holds fast ours may last a bit longer. She had sworn if she ended up with an all honors class load that she wouldn't do a Fall sport, so she'd have time to get herself sorted out. After she got the schedule she wanted, she went back on that, went to summer soccer practice, and generally seemed to be planning to ( Read more... )

Zoë got a new phone and was going to set up a biometric lock for it. I told her she couldn't do that, her password needed to involve something she knows, not just something she has. She asked why ( Read more... )

We were out of waffle mix this morning and Zoë wanted waffles, so I made up some batter so she could have a batch. Which got Mike and me talking about why and when we started buying waffle mix instead of making waffle batter when we wanted some. Both of us grew up in households with homemade pancakes and waffles, so it was a deliberate choice at ( Read more... )

Zoë and her "I live for this camp"'s director's daughter have become fast friends over the years. Typically, she goes over to their house, or they go to the mall, or they hang out on the campus of the camp. Today, P came over here ( Read more... )

This summer, Zoë's school has provided workouts starting a week after school ended. Every day of the week is a general workout, and then one or two times a week there's a sports-specific workout. Zoë has not been doing the daily workouts, but has been doing the soccer specific workout when she felt she could spare time from camp which works out to ( Read more... )

They were able to shift Zoë's schedule around so she's got everything she wanted. (Well, she wanted some arts classes she couldn't fit it. Next year ( Read more... )