When You're 12
Do you remember those days leading up to your birthday when you were younger? I do..... There is that thrill of excitement that fills the air, that little bit of electricity when you know that the day is all about YOU. No one else is as important as you are and it is the one day when everything seems to just be right in your life. Sean has been idly opening cupboard doors and looking under beds. Asking questions about how big, what colour, is it mechanical, does it have wheels, is it in the house (mainly because he hasn't found it), and every meal has been a bombardment of funny statements about his coming of age........ and how he is sure his voice is breaking :) We are still trying to figure out where 12 figures into the "coming of age" according to Sean, why he would think that his voice is breaking and where exactly 13 teen comes into the equation, isn't the TEEN years more the coming of age? There is very little advice that I can dispense upon my child, ...