You are now entering the tween zone

It's been coming for some time.

We first noticed the mood swings.

Then the crying.

Then the 'I can't sleep' stage happened.

Then after a bit of reading we realised we had entered the TWEEN stage. For real. 

There are now posters on the wall.

I have to say, with three daughters I was dreading this move towards young womanhood, thinking we'd lose our little girls forever and gain emotional, moody, argumentative sulks for the next 10 years.

Poor tweens, they can get bad press and yes some of the above (ok maybe all) is true but I recently changed my outlook after we had a quote of the day from the tween herself "Mummy I wish I knew when my moods were coming"

Bless her, it broke my heart, relevant words on so many levels - I still feel like that now about my own moods - Mr H still feels like that now about my own moods AND his daughters moods! 

Now when we get a ride on the hormonal rollercoaster instead of being pulled into the thunderstorm, I try and take a step back and remember that she's too young to control what's going on and try and focus on the good stuff (some days we still clash, we are still two hormonal humans). 

Yes our little girl is growing up, yes tweenville is turbulent, but what's coming is the sight of a great girl with a great sense of humour (on the good days), good conversation, full of fantastic ideas and plans and it's actually a quite exciting to watch this bundle of hormones grow into a girl on a mission with so much ahead of her and a great feeling of pride that we've winged it so far and done ok. 

The road ahead is a mighty one but I have a feeling it's a rollercoaster ride we wouldn't have any other way :)