Getting Started

First off, some introductions. I'm Three Girls Mom, aka Rachel. Welcome to my new blog, an effort to document whether creating a "how to" tutorial will help in my quest to improve on the efforts of acquiring some help from the kids without sounding like a ranting, raving lunatic. Here's hoping it will help! Hard to say, given it's one of those middle of the night, bolt upright out of sleep sorts of ideas.




Here are my three girls.

Starting from the left, meet Callie, the middle child. Now 12 1/2 and about to enter 7th grade, the middle year of middle school.

Need I say more about the challenges of THAT set of middling qualities towards the efforts of helping out? Calgon, take me away.

Callie is sweet, quiet, mysterious, obsessive about her cat, The Beatles, Fan Fiction, Harry Potter's parents generation, writing and doing as much as possible to do as little as possible outside of her cerebral goings on. She dotes on little children and wishes to remain young forever. She is growing taller every day.



In the middle, my youngest, Sophie, now 10 1/2 and soon entering 5th grade, where in her elementary school she'll be top dog (and it will be, sob, my LAST year at the school where I've been a parent since before Sophie was born!). Now, learn about birth orders and being top dogs and early middle aged hormonal challenges of perimenopausal mothers and you'll have a good handle on where we're at with Sophie!

But seriously, Sophie is cheerful, loyal, bright, affectionate, relentlessly helpful, kind, loving, funny and confident. She draws others to her with her sophisticated ways. She should really be given her own show on reality TV on What Not To Wear for Kids By A Kid. She and I love to watch AMERICAN IDOL, AMERICA'S GOT TALENT and now SHARK TANK together and postulate on what we'd do if on those shows. Sophie still finds it cool to show me that she loves me IN FRONT OF OTHER PEOPLE.




Last daughter introduced but obviously somewhat most familiar to me because she is my first born, is Zena. Now 16 1/2 and going into her junior year of high school, Zena is doing everything within her rather sophisticated skill set so she can to be out and away and social with friends or shut in and left alone in her room when she deigns to be home. Her nearly burning out the motor of my dryer the other day was certainly one of the impetuses for coming up with a How To Tutorial. That being said, let me also say Zena is wicked smart, funny, loyal, dependable, a great friend, independent, responsible and self directed. I am often in awe of her ability to navigate through life so well at such a young age. I have to think I've done some things right!

So, in dedication, this blog and How To idea is born is because I adore my girls with all my heart. Because I know sometimes I can be a raging lunatic and that's really no fun for anyone. Because no one taught me back in my day many of the things I've learned to do for myself and kids. And because I hope it can be fun and helpful.