Kids

I have to take some time out from my usual bitching about army wives and focus a little on my kids! I love all four of them, each in different ways.

My oldest is in his second year of college and god love him, the child is very intelligent but he didn't get any common sense. He's going to be an English teacher but currently can't get a job at the waffle house!! I do love him but he's a mess.
Our second son has a rare syndrome and has it together!! LOL!! He's had to have several surgeries for his spinal defect but NEVER complains. One of his surgeries he had to have his jaw removed to have his partial dens removed. Long story but he's amazing.
Our third son has autism, nuff said!! He lacks the grey area that most of us have, everything is black or white. He can have a sense of humor but it takes some getting used to. High school is proving to be a challenge but he will succeed because we don't know how to fail! LOL!

But my daughter is who I really want to focus on. She's the youngest and in the eighth grade. She has her daddy's competitiveness and is very caring and loving for a teenage girl. Admit it, we've all been through middle and high school and the meanest creatures on earth during this time seems to be teenage girls. But she is very different, I've overheard her telling her friends that when she grows up she wants to have a job that doesn't judge you on your beauty but how intelligent you are and how well you perform your job! Wow!!

Let me explain, she is involved in academic bowl, reading bowl, science olympiad, NJHS, peer helpers, math team and velocity. She doesn't wear make-up ( not because of her dad and I but her choice), she doesn't have boyfriends ( because boys are dumb, I think having three older brothers has something to do with it) and makes straight A's in school.

She came home yesterday very upset so I asked her what was wrong. She proceeded to tell me about a friend at school that was cutting herself and how worried she was about her. She then told me how this particular little girl had lost her brother about  two years ago when they were in the sixth grade. She also told me that this friend started liking a high school boy that works at the mall and she sent him some naked pictures from her phone. So my daughter told the school counselor everything she knew. I told her she did the right thing and I thought she was being a good friend, of course she scared that now when her friend finds out that she told they won't be friends any more. The friends mom is a cop and my daughter is afraid of what may happen. No matter what you did the right thing, I told her.   What is your proudest moments as a mom or dad?