Life around my house has stayed a bit busy, mostly with meetings and things associated with Angelgirl’s middle school activities.  Her girl scout meetings have started up again after a break for the holidays and it’s cookie selling time.  She is rehearsing for the spring play (she is Violet in Willie Wonker and the Chocolate Factory).  There were also a few rehearsals to squeeze in for the orchestra’s concert performance last week (she plays the viola).  And of course we manage to fit in her karate classes too.

The big news this week is Angelgirl has her schedule for her high school freshman year that begins in September.  She is excited and I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed – but also delighted that she is looking forward to it.  She is taking Honors Sophomore Alegra (by the time she reaches 12th grade she will be taking statistics!   **ooowww my brain hurts**), Honors English, a science class, a history class, gym and 2 electives – Tech 1 and a language – German  (even though she has had Spanish in middle school she wanted to take something new for language and wanted to something that wasn’t that popular).

To keep focused on my main goal for the year – organizing – I’ve been little by little sorting through clothing.  I have packed up several bags of 3x, 2x and 1x clothing and given them to my sister.  My daughter has also been going through a few things and passsed a couple bags of small clothing to her cousin.  There was a great sale going on (pants for $3 and $5, shirts $7 to $10) so I now have a nice small collection of clothing that fits me well now that I’ve lost over 100 lbs rather than the old, baggy stuff I had been wearing.  I also got a  small stack of clothing that is ready for the next sizing down phase – it fits now, but is just a bit snug.

One of my other goals is bringing more spirituality and health into my life on daily basis and one of the ways I want to do that  is by learning more about chi gong and hopefully find a class I can take.  I bought two books about it to get started.  Some where  have a dvd set that I bought about two years that I need to find – but in this house is could be just about any where so that will take awhile.    I also bought a few wiccan pagan type books that I’m looking forward to browsing.

Life may be a bit fast paced, but it’s moving along very nicely and I’m doing my best to not take on too many projects and get overwhelmed.  

Bright blessings, Lady Rose

Written by Lady RoseTags:daughter, family, goals, high school, middle school

OK so this week’s Pagan Video Tuesday post is not only late but not all that Pagan in flavor.  But, let me explain.  My oldest Miss Artistic starts high school tomorrow.  As a result I keep finding myself flashing on that time period in my own life.  Who my friends were and what I was “into” and what music I was in love with at the time.

This is particularly nostalgic as she is attending the school (one of a total of three high schools I wound up attending) I graduated from.  So as of tomorrow she will be walking halls that I once walked.  Now granted, 20+ years later, the school is larger than it once was and I doubt I’ll remember much of the “landmarks” of it when its time for back-to-school night in a couple of weeks, but still I can’t help but feel more deeply connected to this moment in her life than I might otherwise.

Anyway … I thought for this week I’d share some of the top 100 hits if 1983, the year that found me entering my own high school career (albeit at a different school in a different state).  And while I never settled on one particular genre of music (and frankly never have) these are the ones off the list that I can most vividly remember singing along to (at that age it would’ve been in home in Staten Island, in the basement, at the top of my lungs).

At her age I was a voracious reader and had already read a number of titles that I can only describe as New Age – thanks to the wonders of Scholastic Books (who are not nearly as progressive I guess as they once were) and had “played around” with seances and the whole “light as a feather” thing more times than I could count. By the end of my 2nd year of high school I was already reading tarot cards and had met the boy who would grow up into the man I would one day marry.

As a woman who remembers that time of her life I know that these next years are the formation of the woman she will become. I know that these next years are where she discovers her own identity, her goals, her dreams, her deepest desires. I am happy for her, more than I can say. While not all of high school was easy for me … while I never really found a clique to belong to (larger than an intimate circle of friends) until my Senior year when I fell into the whole choir/band/drama mix … it sure beat the heck of of Junior High and, especially with the ability to reconnect to friend from that period through Facebook I find I remember it fondly overall.

But, as a parent (especially with all we have been through) all I can do is look at her and see that my little girl is gone forever, replaced by a beautiful young woman who’s had a really rough time in Junior High, and hope and pray (and plead and beg) that the next 4 years are easier for her than the last 3 were.

Blessings

Mama Kelly

Written by Mama KellyTags:80's, daughter, high school, music, parenting, video