Hello PE buddies,
It's been over a year since I left the site but I do check in from time to time to see how my PE friends are doing. I wanted to give you a good news update on difficult child.
After starting back to college and making the dean's list one semester, she simply quit going in the middle of the next semester. She came to us and said that college was just not for her and she was really only doing it because she knew that was what we wanted. Instead, she wanted to study to become a hairdresser.
I told her that all we wanted was for her to have a marketable skill so she could be financially independent and lead her own life. She and I went to visit a very high-end school for hair design and husband and I agreed that we would pay for it in lieu of college. She started 9 months ago and stuck with it!!
She graduated last Saturday and is starting the job search this week. She ended up moving back in with us about 6 months ago which we agreed to as long as she stayed in school. So far, although she still is a slob, she is pleasant to us and has lived by our rules. We are hoping that she will find a job and move out soon, though. husband and I had gotten used to our clean, empty nest.
easy child is in her third year of college and makes the dean's list every semester. She has decided to become a math teacher (just like dear old mom). She just got a job as a math TA and is very excited about it.
I've attached a picture of difficult child taken at a hair show. She looks the happiest I've seen her in a very long time.
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l311/kwbatten/IMG_1578.jpg
I haven't seen SunnyFlorida, Scent of Cedars, Coookie, or Ponygirl's names in a while. I think of them and Suz, Fran, Nancy, Nomad, Star, witzend, daisylover, dammitjanet, joG, Esther, everywoman, and DDD often. I miss kris, too. I wish she was still with us so she could tell me I told you so (she often told me that difficult child would be all right in the long run). I still remember those nights that we all took turns rowing the boat for each other.
~Kathy
It's been over a year since I left the site but I do check in from time to time to see how my PE friends are doing. I wanted to give you a good news update on difficult child.
After starting back to college and making the dean's list one semester, she simply quit going in the middle of the next semester. She came to us and said that college was just not for her and she was really only doing it because she knew that was what we wanted. Instead, she wanted to study to become a hairdresser.
I told her that all we wanted was for her to have a marketable skill so she could be financially independent and lead her own life. She and I went to visit a very high-end school for hair design and husband and I agreed that we would pay for it in lieu of college. She started 9 months ago and stuck with it!!
She graduated last Saturday and is starting the job search this week. She ended up moving back in with us about 6 months ago which we agreed to as long as she stayed in school. So far, although she still is a slob, she is pleasant to us and has lived by our rules. We are hoping that she will find a job and move out soon, though. husband and I had gotten used to our clean, empty nest.
easy child is in her third year of college and makes the dean's list every semester. She has decided to become a math teacher (just like dear old mom). She just got a job as a math TA and is very excited about it.
I've attached a picture of difficult child taken at a hair show. She looks the happiest I've seen her in a very long time.
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l311/kwbatten/IMG_1578.jpg
I haven't seen SunnyFlorida, Scent of Cedars, Coookie, or Ponygirl's names in a while. I think of them and Suz, Fran, Nancy, Nomad, Star, witzend, daisylover, dammitjanet, joG, Esther, everywoman, and DDD often. I miss kris, too. I wish she was still with us so she could tell me I told you so (she often told me that difficult child would be all right in the long run). I still remember those nights that we all took turns rowing the boat for each other.
~Kathy
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Now if I can just get rid of the pesky Karina!
