Abigail

Tomorrow is Abigail's 12th birthday. Abby is the sweetest, most thoughtful, conscientious, adorable daughter in the world. She is giggly, cuddly, kind, unassuming. All of a sudden, since starting at secondary school, she has become organised and self-motivated; she gets up and dressed before any of us every morning - so that she can have some time on her own - and often comes in to wake me and Dan up! However, there is a core of steel in this girl. She is stubborn, determined, and unswerving when she has set her mind on something, and if necessary she lets us all know about it, very loudly... And she tells me off quite regularly, in no uncertain terms.

She has made quite a group of friends at school and fills me in on the car ride home about the latest ups and downs, as different ones fall in and out with each other, cry, get in trouble, etc etc.

She still loves animals and now has two fish, two mice, and Frodo the dog, - but she would also love a pet duck... and a cat. And another dog. And she wants to work with animals when she grows up.




     Pepper... and ... Smidge

Abby with Frodo

Her favourite pastimes are art and writing. This is a painting of a mandarin duck she did recently after a visit to the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge:

She does lots of writing, and as a birthday surprise we have had a book (70 pages long!)  she wrote published online on Lulu - one copy only being printed right now, but, if you like you can order a copy!! The book is called Laundry, and is about a kitten.

Her favourite person, and her worst enemy, is her brother Alex. He is making it his job in life to bother her as much as humanly possible, and she gets as wound up as he could ever want. But beneath it all they enjoy each other very much, and I just hope and pray they get past the bugging each other phase  soon...

Thank you Abby for being the most lovely daughter and friend a mother could ever wish for...