Josie the Social Butterfly

If you are wondering why you don't see Josie more on the blog, well... we don't see her much these days either (and she HATES getting her picture taken these days)!  Ever since swimming ended her social calendar exploded.  She used to have swimming practice 3 times per week after school.  And with the bus ride to and there and waiting for the bus and showering and changing after practice it turned the one hour practice into a nearly 3 hour time commitment after school.  Then she still had to do her homework.  She really loved the swimming part but she didn't like it cutting into her social time.  I get it, I was a lot like her once.

She now gets together with friends or they come here nearly every day of the week.  Including the weekends.  Again, I remember doing the same thing and I think I was in 5th grade when I was allowed to walk by myself to my best friends at the time, Sandy and Heather.  And they probably lived a similar distance away from one of Josie's friends here but the others she can easily access by bus or train.  That part of living here really is very cool.  I wonder if she will use the Metro buses in Seattle once we return to get around West Seattle.  Thankfully her best friend in Seattle lives an easily walkable distance away. 

She is still her jovial, helpful, studious self but with an extra dose of pre-teen hormones that rise and fall like the tides.  Oh, boy... these teens years are going to be interesting for sure.  But one thing that Marty and I say over and over about her is that she is truly good to the core.  She is never malicious and she is very quick to apologize even after one of her hormonal outbursts.  She is very truly a good egg!!