All about my monkey

She's been really focusing on her writing lately (believe it or not, this blog was a lame attempt to help further her regular writing routine... look at when she posted last!) and has earned a bit of praise in the writing groups in which she participates. Yesterday she received a notice that someone would like to use one of her poems in their journal - they selected one she's not particularly fond of, but the theme, HOPE, ties in to a humanitarian issue the journal supports... this means that come Christmas time little Miss Kidlet will be a published poet.

Today she left for Rome - most of last week she had a stomach virus - I managed to come down with it yesterday, right when I thought I'd somehow avoided it... that means, unfortunately, that shel got herself to the airport. I'd arranged an alternate companion, but she didn't want one... she didn't want a taxi, either, but preferred to take the metro alone and meet her friends at the Terminal. And she did just that... it's a little odd the leaps and bounds she's covered in her personal growth in the last few months - jaunty new haircut, makeup, new sense of style (she hit up Zara while out shopping yesterday and came home with quite a few cute new things) and the sky-rocketing self-confidence all while maintaining a fairly level head and a focus on school work.

She'll be back in the US for a few months this summer - looking at the end of June until mid-August... something like that.

And that's the Kid's update for today.