Equalibrium and disequalibrium

[pegkerr]

I mentioned that things are going rather well with Delia lately. This is a pleasant change.

Which means that it must be time for Fiona to enter disequalibrium, and right on schedule, that is what has happened. Come to think of it, she was in an equally bad state when school started last year. She has come back from camp mentally rumpled, with a tendency toward teariness--she has cried herself to sleep the least three nights. And she can't in the least explain why; she is perplexed at her own moodiness and has no idea what is going on.

She is also insisting, even more stridently, that she wants her own room.

This makes me want to cry myself.

I think we have definitely entered puberty. I don't feel ready for this.

I can't give up my office entirely.

Damnation.

Comments

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

You know, a basement? Is super cool as a place to live when you are 12.....

[genealogygirl.livejournal.com]

My sympathies! Elizabeth sometimes seems like 4-going-on-14 to me, and I can only imagine what you must be feeling on the very brink of real puberty. This parenting gig is much harder than I ever dreamed. I don't know about you, but I have so much more understanding of my own parents now. I guess that is the way of it, isn't it?

Is it possible for you to create some office space in another room of the house? Perhaps in the master? An attic or basement? A corner of the living room?

Good luck!

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

For a short moment, I thought you were talking about me. Then I realized that Elizabeth has to be _your_ daughter.

Er, and that my name on LJ is not, er, my real name.

It's just a bad situation.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

There is no attic, the basement is unfinished, stuffed full with Rob's junk, one room with non-code windows and a huge octopus furnace.

There is no solution, other than giving up my office or moving.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

And we're already using a corner of the living room for the girls' computer.

[genealogygirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's too bad! I'm sure you've thought through all the options. I just figured if you could even carve out a small corner for yourself somewhere, even if it wasn't a separate stand-alone room, it might not be such a hard thing to give up. I hope a solution will present itself somehow, because I know I would go nuts if I had to give up my space.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I lived in basement as a kid, myself.

But not our basement. It's one unfinished room, stuffed with Rob's junk, with non-code windows and a huge octopus asbestos furnace.