Big vent - my problem with "turning 18"
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Big vent - my problem with "turning 18"
| Tue, 05-29-2007 - 5:18pm |
Wow - I am so wigged out about the prospect of this summer and all the stuff DD will be able to do with being 18 and having a driver's license.
As the world's most over-protective mom, I find myself constantly in a state of hyperventilation. I know this is how life is, but will my nerves ever get a rest?!?
I just wish someone would medicate me from May 31 through June 2. DD leaves on the senior trip to Disneyland, SoCal on 5/31, is gone until midnight June 2 and then comes home to go rafting with her best friend a few hours later. DD and the friend are real squares - religious, non-drinking, etc., but they just love stuff like this rafting and other dangerous sports.
Someone, please just bring on the elephant tranquilizers for me.

LOL
Thanks, Rose. That sure puts things in perspective. Memo to self - remember parents of kids fighting for our country!
Yes - its all child's play compared with that. God bless you and your kids.
J would like to end up at Ft. Campbell, though you know it's just a matter of where the army chooses to send him.
This isn't the life I'd have chosen for my DSs, I'd prefer something much safer and closer to home, but it's what they want to do and have wanted to do for a very long time (with the exception of S who pretty much enlisted on a whim), so just like when they were younger, mom is just here to provide "camp support."
Rose
I do understand what you mean since DD turned 18 on March 5. At least it took one worry away from me when she could legally drive after midnight since I wasn't always looking at the clock to see if she was home on time and I'm not worrying about her getting a ticket. I really haven't had any discussions w/ her about when to come home. She has been pretty reasonable about being home by midnight or even earlier. I don't care if she stays out a little later, I just wouldn't want her staying out until 3:00 or 4:00 because I would wonder what she was doing. Of course, this weekend, she made me a little nervous when she slept at a friend's house and didn't tell me she was staying over. First she said she was going to her dad's. DH & I went to a movie and were surprised when we came home and saw her car there. I usually call to find out where she is, but this time I didn't. I got up at 5:00 a.m. to go to the bathroom and she wasn't home. I didn't panic because I assumed that she stayed at a friend's, but I did call her around 8:00 to wake her up. lol She, in her lack of any common sense, said "you didn't expect me to be home since I was supposed to be at dad's" Well, yes, if her car wasn't home, I would have assumed she was at dad's, but since the car was there and I didn't know where she was... I told her that if she felt it was too late to call the house phone & wake me up, she could at least call & leave a message on my cell.
Then there is the matter that this weekend after prom, which is Fri. night, she & some friends are renting a house in Vermont for the weekend. This is the first time she has gone anywhere w/o adult supervision. When my friend said she wouldn't let her kids go, I reminded her that we used to go away for vacations when we were 18 w/o our parents. I told my DD that I am hoping that noone does anything to wreck the beautiful house they have rented, or noone does anything stupid like deciding to drink, then go swimming in the indoor pool! I wish I could go on vacation and stay in that house.
I'm glad she's going away to college so I won't have to think about what she's doing all the time.