She is so beautiful.............................

We finally picked up my youngest's senior pictures last night. Yup! The ones that she had taken last June. There was a time in my life that this could have been because I didn't have the money to pay off the balance. I am extreamly blessed that this was not the case. There was a time when I wouldn't not have had the time to attend to the matter. Again, I am blessed that this was not the reason. I have "me" time now, on a daily basis, and I love it. Nope, this one is totally being blamed on the kid!

She has had an extreamly busy fall, and we could never coordinate a time when we could both go in and set down with the staff to figure out what we wanted. If you don't believe me, let me remind you that this is the same daughter that thought she lost her purse thus cancelled her debit card and two months later had still not made it to the bank. So mom finally called and ask why they could not just mail her a replacement card which they did and now it has been another month that she has been using the bank generated code because she still has not had time to get to the bank during a time that they are open. This doesn't concern me that much because 1, I have seen her car and it is so trashed that no thief is going to bother to look for anything important like a scap of paper with a bank code on it in that mess, and 2, when she loses it (and she WILL lose it eventually) this might move her into action on getting into the bank and putting her own code back on the card. One of those win win thingies.

But I was telling you about the pictures. BEAUTIFUL! Yes, I know a mother is suppose to think that, but really folks. She is so beautiful (how beautiful is she?), she is so beautiful that I even considered breaking my rules and posting a picture for all to see. She got this little composit deal (because I ordered so damn many poses, but she IS the baby so I AM entitled) and I had decided that the pictures where small enough that they might be okay to post, but then I realized since the middle shot is of her posing around her name in big letters that would be a dead give a way of who we are so no can do. She is so beautiful that I am seriously concerned that her siblings will be upset at having to hang on the wall beside of her for the rest of eternity (I know I took my picture down, but then it is my wall so I am allowed right?). She is so beautiful... ENOUGH! I settled for showing her boyfriend her picture and then bugging him until he agreed with me that she was so beautiful, she looks just like her mother.

So we have the picture thing over... Now onto the DVD. (Again because of the size of our order) she gets this DVD made of all of the (200) poses. For this she had to pick out three songs for them to use. She knew she wanted our funeral song, but not what else. Funeral song you ask? This is a song that I want played at my funeral. It is by Collin Raye and called "I Wish I Could" and is about a dad that wants to always protect his daughter and yet knows that it is is not possible. Back when my youngest was maybe 8 or so, I was going out of town for a couple of days and left her little gifts to open in my absence. This song was one of those gifts, so that made it special. The fact that we ALWAYS cry when we listen to it makes it even more special. I have totally lost the point of what I was talking about... Oh, yes! The rest of the music... I spent some time yesterday picking out other potential songs for the DVD, and in the end we were only able to limit it to seven potential songs. Keep your fingers crossed that they are able to work them all in as we already gave up twenty contenders and just can't cut anymore (what a whiner!).

One of them that had to be cut, in my youngest's opinion, was "If I were brave," because as she put it, "Any kid that can go talk to the Superintendent of schools is brave so we can't use that song, right?" WHAT! I didn't tell you about her talk with the superintendent?

Did I tell you about the senior shirt, that sports a Jack Daniels label, that was changed AFTER the kids voted on a different shirt, by a few select "in charge" students, which when it arrived my youngest was told by said student, "since you ordered a shirt you have to pay for a shirt," which she did and then tossed in a drawer since she wasn't going to wear it. I found out about the shirt from another parent and voiced my displeasure to the principal who said to me, "Lots of kids are unhappy and didn't buy a shirt. Tell her to bring me the shirt and I will get her money back for her. Which she did the next day, and which insued a campaign on her part of bugging him to attend to the matter over the last month, and last week promted him to say to her, "If you don't stop bothering me about this, I am going to give you the shirt back and do nothing about it" which I found to be a TOTALLY inapropriate thing for a principal to say to a student, SO...I suggested she take the matter to his boss so that his boss knew how he was choosing to interact with the students.

She decided to do so, but being the fair minded individual that she is, talked with the principal one more time before her meeting. In that discussion the principal told her he NEVER told me he would get her money back which is a total lie, but also typical of his character. She told him (and the superintendent) that is was never about the money, but about the way things had been handled from the beginning. While she didn't feel things would change after her meeting, she did feel great about standing up for herself, and felt that the superintendent was compassionate and heard her concerns so this is good.

P.S. In one of those "be careful what you wish for" lessons, this is the same principal that two years ago called me all concerned because my daughter refused to speak to him when he said hello to her in the hallways (she is like an animal... they know instinctally to avoid rotten characters). All I keep thinking now is he HAS TO BE saying to himself, "Why is it I wanted that kid to talk to me? Now all I want is for her to shut up and leave me alone!" Like I said, "Be careful what you wish for."