Thursday, July 22, 2010

My eldest daughter

Yes, my eldest daughter (who is in the last months of her 15th year) makes me twitch occasionally. Like when she did not have clothes to pack for our weekend in Breckenridge because they were all dirty...and she didn't realize we were leaving the next day (though we had talked about it for weeks). Or when we got to Breckenridge and she didn't have a sweatshirt to wear to the ice arena because she had "forgot"...despite the fact that I had given her a packing list of what she needed to bring.

But, today's post is not about the things she does that make me twitch. Today I write about what she does to make me say, "I have a fabulous teenager!" Last week Kaylee went to CU at Boulder for an Engineering Camp. She believes she wants to be a Mechanical Engineer and we want her to have as much exposure to what that means BEFORE we start paying for college classes. This camp is AWESOME! An entire week spent at CU. Living in the dorms, eating at the cafeteria, designing and building in the Engineering labs. I will admit I was a little jealous when I dropped her off in the lab.

The night before she left for camp she said that the worst part of going to camp for a week was the fact that she would not be able to have dinner with her family. ahhh

Then, Monday the younger 2 girls and myself  headed to dinner by ourselves (Chance was headed to gaming and wasn't going to be home for dinner). Kaylee called because she was also going to dinner and then to the local rec center so she wouldn't be home until late. She wanted to make sure she told her sisters, her dad, and I good night before then. ahhh

Kaylee called home EVERY night she was at camp. Just to chat. Tell us what she had been up to that day and to tell her sisters that she loved them and good night. ahhh

When we were eating dinner at the parent workshop portion of the camp, another daughter was telling her mom all about the week. I smiled. I already knew it all, because my teenager had called every single night.

I have a fabulous teenager!