Mami Drama

I haz one:) On the 21st of May, 2009, I became the not-old-enough parent of a high school graduate. Ok, I am technically old enough, but since I feel like I age at a rate slower than most around me, my oldest kid should be around 13.

But she’s not. She’s a fresh adult with goals and aspirations and, as of ten days ago, a golden ticket to Grown-Up Land. She doesn’t agree, of course…she says that while she’s an adult, she refuses to be a grown-up. Like that’s a dirty word. Ahh, I remember those days LOL.

Come September, (actually late August but I like September better) Shay will join the ranks of collegians  at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, provided we are able to jump through the remaining hoops for financial aid. She will be several thousand miles away in a fairly remote area we have only dreamt about, probably alone and having the time of her young life.

She wants to study animal behaviour. Sometimes she wants to teach, or be in theater, or do art. She is better equipped for some of these than others, but from experience I know that what she finds out about herself in the coming years will determine her path irrespective of what she’s come across so far. I know that whatever she decides she will not easily lose her spontinaity and effervescence.  And what she finds, she will love.

She is much like her father, I am realizing.  She charms with her smiles as she heads off to play, and I am hoping this means she also has his ability to roll with the punches and his aptitude for excelling at the next thing once boredom hits. Because she has such varied interests she won’t long be satisfied with one carreer. I know she will be a force for good let loose on the world. Positive change, people.