the trials of tweens

Oh the trials of the in-between-years.  I wish I could scoop her up and carry her over the proverbial threshold into her twenties. What a mixed bag and emotional roller coaster these years are. I wish we could rewind and be back in Bham.  Would that fix it?  I doubt it.  I suppose some of it...perhaps much of it is inevitable.  I wish that weren’t the case.  Please help me help her.  Help me give her wings to fly.  Everything feels lighter when you are off the ground.