We're Nocturnal

We are all having a hard time getting back on schedule. Most nights this week at 3:00am all of us are awake. A. had a minor setback going home so soon after moving. Right now with school being out of session she hasn’t met anyone so her English experience has not really begun. So talking to her friends on the phone last week and then having people ask her if she liked living in England was a bad combination. She didn’t want to leave the U.S. I have contacted the local youth centre to see if there are some activities she could participate in and I also introduced her to the 15 year old girl that lives next door who seems like a very nice kid. But part of me doesn’t want this little cocoon that the three of us are living in without a lot of outside contact to end. With A. turning 13 next month and school starting in September, I feel the teenage years quickly approaching where the last thing she will want to do is hang out with her parents. Will she still want to play Guitar Hero with mom and dad?

When we were in the States she decided that she wanted to cut her hair. She wanted a scene haircut. What is a scene haircut? Well I had to do a Google image search to find out and it involves lots of jagged bangs (fringe in the UK) and colors like red and blue. I told her to try again. She in the end got her bangs cut. The girl who cut them told her they were supermodel bangs which meant she cut both sides down to a point in the middle of her face so that the bangs could be pushed to either side and have that jagged look. This means that one eye is usually covered which drives H crazy. Like I told my sister-in-law B, does an almost 13 year old girl really need dramatic bangs as an accessory to her dramatic moods? Well she’s got them.

I have been trying to get her to focus on the positive. We are going to see Wicked in the West End on the 16th of August. We saw it a few years ago with some good friends in Chicago and she is dying to see it again. It will be interesting to see if there is a difference.