Overachiever
My daughter
madelineusher is now a high school graduate; the ceremony was yesterday. She picked up one of three special awards for academic excellence at her extremely challenging school, which made me just a tiny bit proud. :)
Later that evening, after a great dinner at the Stinking Rose with several other families, her mom and I had the white-knuckle experience of bidding her farewell as she went off to a graduation party at some friend-of-a-friend's house in Malibu. I kept telling myself that she will be spending every single night away with strange kids starting in mid-August, but somehow that thought was also less than comforting.
As it turned out (and as I expected), I had no cause for worry. She and her friends got to the party, found it to be decidedly not to their tastes -- too much show-off drinking and bad rap music -- and left within an hour.
Every now and then I get the feeling that I just might have raised her right.
madelineusher is now a high school graduate; the ceremony was yesterday. She picked up one of three special awards for academic excellence at her extremely challenging school, which made me just a tiny bit proud. :)
Later that evening, after a great dinner at the Stinking Rose with several other families, her mom and I had the white-knuckle experience of bidding her farewell as she went off to a graduation party at some friend-of-a-friend's house in Malibu. I kept telling myself that she will be spending every single night away with strange kids starting in mid-August, but somehow that thought was also less than comforting.
As it turned out (and as I expected), I had no cause for worry. She and her friends got to the party, found it to be decidedly not to their tastes -- too much show-off drinking and bad rap music -- and left within an hour.
Every now and then I get the feeling that I just might have raised her right.