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

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I did not live in those circs, but I lived in a very small house with far too many people--especially when half-siblings showed up and needed to be shoehorned in. my sister and I fought hideously. I too learned to hang at the library, and in a tree--my sister, the popular one, ended up spending a lot of time at her friends'. So I sympathize with the girls' wish for more space...and I sometimes think if we'd just had cubbies dividing our room so we had the semblance of privacy, and our own things there and a bit of our own taste instead of everything-shared-everything-pink, we would have done better.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I hung out in a tree too! No wonder we get along so well.