All Things New

Just wanted you to know that Sparkles is now part of the working force... she has a job, not a babysitting job, not a volunteer job but a real paying job... she is working for Papa Murphy's Take and Bake Pizza... she starts training Today.

Now I am of mixed feelings about this job thing on the one hand she needs the job to help pay for her insurance and gas money and her Senior Year (I am already trying to figure out the bill for that one: Homecoming, year book, senior pictures, Washington DC trip, Grad night, Prom, Graduation....)(UGH!!) And now with the new driving laws until the kids are 18 they have a driving curfew of 11pm. good right? But for Prom night well that means a Limo... so she wants a job to be able to get the extras... But on the other hand she has, well her Senior year... she has one College class that she needs to take in order to graduate and to finish her internship, and to well do her Senior project to be presented at the Washington DC trip, she normally does Color Guard and she is talking about dropping that (which I have mixed feelings about) then there is all the committees that she wants to be on: Prom and Senior activities I don't think she said anything about yearbook but I know that she was really upset about how it was done last year. Whew! I just hope she can juggle it all... I know she has watched the best of the best (Barbara) let’s see if she can put what she has learned into practice.

The other wonderful news is Froggy... he will be a freshman this year and instead of signing up for Soccer he signed up for Football... Now Froggy has put on quite a few inches he is 14 years old and is 5 foot 5... but still a rail thin guy... Think build of say a string bean. So I will be on the bleachers every Friday night hoping (a) that they play him - he is a freshman and (b) he doesn't get hurt... they are trying him for kicker (he played Soccer for many years as a goalie he can kick) but they were also talking about the guy that passes the ball back to the quarterback (Center?) you know the one that gets mushed since everyone is trying to get to the QB... lovely... fun... just what I wanted him to do... ugh but I don't tell him that I just grin and tell him he can do it! Ugh the things you do and say when you are a Mom.
(note after writing this he came home from practice and :They have signed him up for Receiver… panic ensues.)

Luckily the only thing Miss Bee right now wants to do is go to swim lessons which she is doing quite well at and really loves but I am lucky in the respect that all of my kids have the love of water that I have. Miss Bee is even starting to do a freestyle stroke (well kinda) its really cool to watch. I sit there and watch my kids and wonder “God I hope that my Mom had as much fun watching us and I do my kids”... and really all parents should have this much fun watching their kids try something new and succeed at it or at least do their very best. I may complain about Prom or Football or whatever but really I love watching them grow and expand and not be afraid to try something. To attack the world with such fearlessness...

I am proud of Froggy for not staying at home and playing video games and for going to the football field. I am proud of Sparkles for going out and getting a job, and proud of Miss Bee for loving swimming lessons even if she doesn't get the same teacher each session. Even if I am scared, concerned or even doubtful that they can manage all that they take on I am very proud of them and I wouldn't tell them any different.