Kudos to Kierstin

I just have to give a "Kudos" to my lovely Kierstin. (this is her last year's pic). This year started the year I've been dreading since she started school, (yes 10 years ago).. SEMINARY!

Not that I'm against seminary. I KNOW for a fact it is such a wonderful way to innoculate these wonderful kids as they go off into the much infested world of high school. However, Kierstin and I are NOT what you call morning people. Having to be up and ready for elementary school to start by 8:05 every morning was killer. Let's put it this way. We got to walk to Moffett School every morning (yes I did take that for granted). Kierstin's room was always the one closest to home. Bradley's was on the other side of the school. Poor Bradley who was always waiting around for Kierstin had at least 5 tardies per semester on his report. When Kierstin left for Jr. High, he amazingly never had another tardy, ever! Enough said.

I have to admit that my seminary years saw a "few" tardies on my roll sheet (no divulging just how many Erin, Heather or Shannon!) . Kierstin gets that from me. So it is with some dread and much trepidation that I was looking forward to having to wake Kierstin up at 5:20 in the morning so she could be to seminary that starts at 6:00 a.m. cuz high school starts at 7:30.

Yes, poor Kierstin will have to do this for the rest of her high school career, all 4 of them but I must say how about poor me? I GET to do this for the next 18 years of my kids' lives!!

Well, the first week, Kierstin got up really well. Fortunately, we get to carpool with her friend Ms. Callie Campbell who lives up the street from us. They were driving the first week so she got up pretty well and was ready to go when the quiet little knock on the door came. I thought, yeah, that's the first week.

2nd week, my turn to drive. I thought, "oh no, here comes the complaining and I'm going to have to do the whole "you want to choose the right, don't you?" speech... Nope, she got out the door without a complaint. 4 weeks later, Kierstin is still getting up and out the door on time and I have not heard ONE WORD of complaint out of her. (the morning groan when the light goes on, doesn't count). I've heard a few other mothers express how they have had to give that CTR talk to their kids already.

WAY TO GO KIERST! I'm so inawed of that solid moral compass you have within yourself that keeps you solidly on the right path. You are even learning all of your scripture mastery scriptures. YOU ARE AWESOME!! Keep on the path and you'll be so glad you did and we'll celebrate forever! Seminary will be worth it cuz it will help you to get there.

Luv, your grateful, proud, in awed.... mom