I'm sad and happy!?!
:(Ok, so I'm kind of sad and happy!?! My daughter just finished her very last day of High School. I can't believe that all these years have come and gone. She has turned into a beautiful young lady and her future is ahead of her. This is just 1 of many stepping stones on her journey. It was just her first day of preschool. I am going to be a mess at the Graduation Ceremony. I only wish my parents were here to see how beautiful she has become. To have them there would have been really great as they were very, very close. She is my 2nd of 4 but she has been through so much these past two years. Major leg surgery, in the hospital for 7days in November. She had a rare reaction to a cortisone shot and it ate away the fat pocket in the knee so she now has part of her calf flipped up to take up that space. A scar that goes all the way to her ankle and had a skin graft from her hip to cover the damaged skin on her knee. To watch her play soccer with a college team is simply amazing to me. Her determination and drive are to be comended. She will play college soccer in the fall and persue a teaching career and a coach. I was with her every second in the hospital and I saw first hand what she went through. (I couldn't have done it without complaining) so maybe this is why I am having a hard time with this. My son graduated 2 years ago and I am just as proud of him. There is something that is making me sad about this. I think it is because my dad passed last year and he can't hear her name being called at graduation. ( he lived in NC for the past 4 years) so when my son graduated he was on the cell phone and could hear his name being called. Sorry for the rambling but she just came in and I am trying not to cry. She also had her yearbook with her and to see all those kids who were so little with her grown up I'm sad and happy!?! | 