Bee-ing in Idaho

*Disclaimer* This will be long.  It is part one of a series.   I'm just gonna jump right in, so buckle up.  I decided to start with puberty because I think that's kinda where it all starts to go off the rails, and it seems to be at the root of most teenage angst.  We've all been there.  The mood swings, the cramps, the body image, it's all because of puberty.  What is puberty exactly?  Well, this is what Websters 1828 Dictionary says.  Quote: PU'BERTY , noun [Latin pubertas, from pubes.] The age at which persons are capable of procreating and bearing children. This age is different in different climates, but is with us considered to be at fourteen years in males, and twelve in females.  I find this to be fairly accurate, but in my specific situation, my daughters, and my sons, not entirely.  I noticed a few physical changes in my son around the age of ten, emotional changes around eleven.  My daughter was twelve when we started having trouble with h

Hello friends and fellow females!  I'm a woman (duh) which means that at one point in my life, I was a little girl, a teenager, and a young woman.  I am now "middle aged" 😢.  Womanhood or whatever you want to call it, is still a big fat mystery to me!!  There are some things that I will just never know or understand.  Scientifically/medically maybe, but the why...I may never know.  There are also some things that I do know about/understand...and wish to pass on to my girls.  Stuff that they should know, even if they don't want to. 🙉 So, If you've read my previous posts, you know that I have six children.  👩👨👧👧👧👦The oldest is a fifteen year old girl, then an (almost) 13 year old boy, then three more girls aged seven, five, and four, and taking up the rear is the little man, he's two.  Needless to say, I am going through some very different phases in my mothering journey.  They're all challenging and they are all amazing in their own ways.  But rig