Category: Preteens and Tweens

Volleyball tournament: Part 1

Crafty Daughter on the court It’s 8:11 p.m. and Coach Dad is due any minute with our two girls. Crafty Daughter had a volleyball tournament about 1.5 hours from home. She has a tournament about 3 weekends a month. Yep,…

Eating By the Decades: My Children

Crafty Daughter in her “hat phase,” Adventure Boy in his “squirming to get out of the photo” phase, and Sporty daughter as a Cat (I don’t recall which one) from Cats. My three children were born to the same parents,…

Survived Spa No. 13

This weekend was busy. Crafty Daughter turned 13 today. Her family party was Friday. Her friend party was Saturday. Yesterday she had a volleyball tournament. In lieu of a post, here’s something I wrote for Typeamom: https://typeamom.net/component/option,com_mycontent/Itemid,81/id,1635/task,view/ The first two…

The Last Gasp of Christmas

Razor ride-on…here comes Crafty Daughter! Pajamas on Christmas Eve. Two-wheeler time for Adventure Boy. Toe socks and flip flops, but of course. Christmas will officially conclude tonight as Crafty Daughter has her volleyball Secret Santa dinner. It has been a…