Thread: The spirit gets renewed

A month ago, I was pouting as I had not heard from my daughter in several weeks. I know we raised our two to be independent, but not to that extent. It is not as if I had embarrassed them or caused some scandal.

We seem to have a system in our household where I put the pieces together which I can pull from the both of them. I hear from one they had an argument at camp (where they both work this summer), and I find out what it is about from the other. I hear that son's ankle is sore, and daughter tells me it is because he fell off the roof on their service trip down south.

Daughter has called 3-4 times in the past two weeks to talk with me. When I last talked to her, she was not even sure what she felt like doing in the future. No enthusiasm for anything.

She just called now on her way home from a week's workshop on AP Stats, and we had a good talk. Her enthusiasm has returned, and she has the first two chapters outlined for the next year. That should take care of the first quarter for that one class. Then she will gather with a girlfriend who teaches 8th grade advanced Algebra, while she teaches several lower groups of HS Algebra. Her friend is returning from an Algebra workshop, so mine hopes to gather a few more resources for those classes.

She plans on going into her classroom on weekends to get started on her classroom. Her fire is lit again. She has new ideas and a couple of software ideas if the school will purchase it. The tide is turning to the positive, and the drive is heading to the future. :-) My gal has returned.

Look out world!