Graduation~2008
Oldest Daughter has been trying my patience.
She doesn't want to get a summer job. She doesn't want to contribute by helping around the house.
Instead, Oldest Daughter wants to sleep late, and socialize, and spend her parents' hard earned money.
And me? Well, I have a problem with that.
As a result, Oldest Daughter and I are at odds. We aren't fighting exactly, but an uncertain kind of wariness has wedged itself between us.
...and this makes me feel so sad, because this should be our summer of celebration, not contention.
The only good thing that I can see coming out of all of this exasperation, is that if things keep going as they are, I shall be relieved to see Oldest Daughter leave for college this coming Fall.
Please pray for us if you are the praying sort.
Without some sort of divine intervention, goodness only knows how we shall make through this summer.
3 comments:
I am that sort...and I am talking with God about this!
What a neat picture
Looks somewhat like your #4 child...just a bit!
Sometimes this energy that builds is part of what allows the jettison that is required to launch rockets.
Eldest might be a rocket?
Patti
LOL!
Patti, if Oldest Daughter is the rocket, does that make me the rocket launcher? LOL! I had sort of begun to think that my rocket launching days were over....
I'm just teasing my friend! I understand what you are saying and agree that this "tension" for lack of a better word, is "normal" (whatever normal is).
Thanks for the prayers!
We'll be praying too sis. I'm counting the days......until we are there.
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