smells like tween spirit

smells like tween spirit

oi! how is it that no matter how much you savor the moment, it still seems to fly by? another mom moment today... i was walking through target with the girls and one of their friends. there was a lot of girlie giggling about some little boy who kept making faces at them. so i'm picking up a little bottle of travel shampoo and torrey mentioned that she thought she needed some deodorant. i assured her she didn't... but she offered for me to do a smell test. UM, YAH... she needed deodorant! how weird is it that a flood of feelings came over me, thinking how much changed in just the blink of an eye. it seems like it's just the gateway into a whole new part of her little life. but being there in with three giggling girls did help me keep myself pulled together enough to help her pick out some asian pear scented secret deodorant.

when we got home the two of us walked the yard and talked about growing up stuff. crazy how-am-i-already-at-this-point stuff and cute little things too. she said, "i'm going to have to start thinking about different kinds of christmas presents now. do you think a purse is a sensible gift for a girl my age?" that's my girl. :)

she seems to be taking it all in stride. today, at least!

i saved the news for her to tell stan when he got home from work. i seriously think he choked up when he heard the news. why is it that there just seems to be this intrinsic understanding that this is the beginning of many changes to come? such a silly thing. deodorant. who knew? stan just sat and hugged her for several minutes. it's kinda choking me up typing this. just a sweet moment to watch & ponder.

yes, i did get a picture of her with her little bottle of deodorant... but promised her i wouldn't post it online. :)

seize the day! life flies by faster than we expect it.

sassy sweet

eight years old has marked a year of lots of changes for torrey. a new house, new school, new glasses... and a new independent spirit. not that she hasn't always had a bit of that, it's just that this year we've seen the change over to the tween years. she's really coming into her own, and this girl's got a sassy streak. (i can't imagine where she gets it from, she says while avoiding eye contact..) it's been a lot of fun to see, but comes with the classic problems of sassy-ness. when it's OK to be sassy, and when it is definitely NOT ok to be sassy. lol. sometimes you wonder why life always seems to be changing - just when you got used to the last load of changes. but with each new thing, there always seems to be truckloads of blessings that come along with them... so that's what we do. walk, one foot in front of the other, into each bit of change.

thank you so much for all of your kind words yesterday about my friend, donna. your thoughts and prayers mean so much to me. what a blessing!

thought i'd post a teaser from the tsr {the scrap review} review on the silhouette i did the other day. hopefully it's not too scatterbrained sounding. there seemed like there was so much to say on the matter, stuff just kept coming out! lol. anyway, there are more projects & a complete review you can check out if you want to kill some time.

and one more tsr teaser. this was the project i worked on today... turning this into something album worthy. :) i'll let you know when the project posts in a few days.