Tangents

Okay - so my life today is full of tangents...you know those paths you end up on that you just weren't expecting but something seemed to take you there?

Today has pretty much evolved around one person - my eldest daughter.

Love her to death, but she can spark an argument quicker than lightening.

Example:

She is in the final stages of getting her Gold Award from the Girl Scouts (it is the highest award offered, and she started 2 yrs behind the other girls in her troop since we found them late & she has gotten farther than the others .... even farther behind when you take into consideration that some of these girls have been in the same troop for the last 8 yrs - very proud of her in this respect) ....

Any how her troop Leader called to set up a time for the girls to meet with their 'supervisor' for their project -- a song book & monthly get together for residents at an assisted living facility to bring the residents closer together (they suffer from the same 'apathy of neighborhood' as so many residential areas of the US ... because of the overturn of people coming and going, they never seem to take the time to know their neighbors ... or in this case fellow residents) --- it was a simple question, although once 'translated' thru the daughter it got confusing.

Answer wasn't so simpe: any day that she can get a ride since eldest is moving out and he won't be around anymore to give her a ride.

This ran into a discussion about the van keys .... to keep him from 'borrowing' the van without permission while we are out I commented that we might take the main & spare with us when we go somewhere ....

this led to daughter saying 'or leave them with me' ... I gave her a funny look -- you have to understand that he can get her to cave-in fairly quickly and she would end up giving him the keys if he really wanted them ...

this led to daughter flying off the handle of my apparently accusing her of joy-riding with the car while we are gone (that would never happen) and that she would only do it if something happened to the little-ones and it was an 'emergency' .... my response was three numbers ... 9-1-1.

This ran into a "discussion" on how she will be getting her liscense soon ... and my retort that I would like her to get a bit of the nasty weather under her tires while she still needed to have someone in the car with her ... someone who can give her advice so she didn't end up in the snowy ditch like her brother (and he had already been driving for several years).

Well -- you can imagine the reaction ... and extra 3 - 4 months of driving with someone?!

You would have thought she had just found out that we were going to move or something (oh that's a battle I don't want to go thru again)