Most of you know that I've got four children. My eldest is seventeen. Oh heavens...how did that happen? Wasn't I just seventeen the other day? I'm sure I was.... Well, she's amazing. I know the majority of mothers have very high compliments to pay their children--and rightly so. However, my baby girl is astounding by anyone's standards. She is going to high school and college at the same time. In high school she's taking mostly AP (Advanced Placement) classes, which also count for college credits. She gets up at five a.m. every morning, goes to Seminary, then goes to school, she works four hours daily as an office manager at Winderemere Real Estate. She speaks Spanish, plays piano, guitar and flute. She goes to the gym daily and it shows. This was her yesterday. This is a picture I just took of her, after getting her braces put on. Now, having said that she is gifted and talented, I should ammend this post to tell you the following. She just got home
no one appreciates humor about themselves until they are 30
ReplyDelete17 with big hair - you're moving into second place Pammy.
ReplyDeleteTom, you go for the big haired seventeen year olds, eh? Remind me not to bring my daughter when I come a callin' on you dear.
ReplyDeleteAnna, so true. Most teenagers can't see the humor in themselves, mores the pity. I wish I'd been more carefree when I was that age as well. It's not easy to do.
Carefree teenagers are few and far between around their parents. It used to be the ultimate humiliation to be seen wandering around, say, the mall with my parents. The horror!! Now, my mom is my best friend. Funny how times change. Give her another 12 years and she'll find the "big hair in the middle of nowhere" comment hysterical. :)
ReplyDeletePam, Sorry I haven't commented much on what seems to be a great time across the west.
ReplyDeleteLooking at this pic, though - what a great artistic shot! Wish I could get my staff photographer off his "grip and grin" saddle and work on a neat piece of composition.
I'm not joking either. Just look at it. Girl looking out at the road ahead, with the past wedged neatly in that rear-view mirror.
Jeez, I gotta stop thinking and talking shop.
Janis? Is that you?
ReplyDeleteOh My God!
you know what Pam? I was so insecure growing up, in comparison, I'm actually younger at heart now, because my self esteem has set me free. It's hard to have healthy self esteem at that age. I really think that's what they mean when they say youth is wasted on the young. They're so worried.
ReplyDeleteYou're right Fronty, that is a good picture. I was so fixated on the hair I didn't even look at it.
ReplyDeletePammy, her hair is PERFECT! Nice pic.
ReplyDeleteFronty, you are sweet. I wasn't really trying to make it so beautiful. It just happened that way. Plus I took it with my cell phone camera. Weird huh?
ReplyDeleteVicus, methinks you may be having flashbacks.
Anna, I agree with you totally. Youth is indeed wasted on the young.
Stay-at-home-mommy, I recall going through the not wanting to be seen with the parental units stage.
Carmentza, thank you. Her hair is gorgeous, but you know how teenage girls don't like to do the big hair thing. When my hubby saw the picture he thought it might be me.