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A continuation of my original blog, "Surviving Motherhood". |
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Welcome to my world of middle school, high school, and motherhood. The life of a mom is never easy, especially as children grow, and especially when you have a special needs child. ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** |
| There is never a day where my kids don't amaze the hell out of me. They are upstanding human beings, and I am so privileged to be their mom and be in their lives. I know I've come on here and gushed and gushed about them ad nauseum, but I cannot help but being a proud and grateful mother. Today's edition is an ode to Journey. For the last 3 weeks, Journey has been borderline obsessed with creating a cat class president campaign. She's created campaign posters, drew up plans on how she's going to alter the school, written down changes she's going to make, who her VP and staff are going to be, made a victory speech, created a new mascot for the school, has attempted to email her principal about setting all of this up, has talked to and received votes (albeit they believed she was just pretending) from her teachers and friends, has held a debate, created vote cards, and has connected with financial backers (her Pokemon) to fiance her campaign. Never in her life have I witnessed her put so much effort into something like this. With all this work, she has singlehandedly earned the "Inside Government" badge from Girl Scouts. The sad part is, pretty much all this planning, developing, and creating is all for naught. Though her teachers are great in supporting her ideas and dreams, the reality of this actually happening is very slim (unless the principal and the assistant principal want to make her day and let it seriously run through the school for a day...I don't see that happening, but, I digress), and Don and I have tried to gently let her know that this may not even come to fruition. She was devastated last night when she told us that cat class president elections and ceremony were supposed to be today, and she hadn't heard back from the principal for permission to overtake the office and change things. I admire her gumption, her spunk and her determination. One day, with the right tools, she'll change the world. Don and I got to talking about her characteristics and her future when she went to bed. Journey is the most driven, dedicated, determined, hard working, persevering, creative, out of the box thinker that I have ever met. When that girl hopes and dreams, she doesn't just leave it at that-she gets to work. She plots, she plans, she spends time on it. She works on it whenever there's free time. Where there's a will, she makes a way. She's a tenacious little thing, and she doesn't take no for an answer. She has all this in spades, and thensome! I have watched her work fervently on this campaign for the last 3 weeks. I wish like hell all her efforts could be put into some special extra credit social studies project, because the detail and the planning that she put into this is top notch. When this girl gets an idea, she runs with it, and nearly nothing will stop her. All of this has me making wishes for her as she becomes an adult. I wish that she can work for a company that has projects all the time. I wish for that company to make her a leader of many of those projects. I wish for that company to adore out of the box, creative ideas and solutions, because she is just chalk full of them. She understands what needs to get done in order to make things happen, like creating a budget, getting the supplies needed, putting in all the work and effort, working on the details, smoothing things out, doing a practice run, looking for kinks and problem solving issues that arise as work continues. She helped do ALL THIS for Girl Scout 101. This is what I've been trying to teach my girls since they were Brownies. Journey already has ample supply of it. She blows me away. If given the right tools and opportunity, Journey is going to be very successful in this world, I have no doubt in my mind. She has the right attitude, the right work ethic, and a boat full of skills to go with it. She's shown this since product sales in Girl Scouts. She shows this in every project we put together in Girl Scouts. Hands down, even though me and the organization (or as I like to now call them, the corporation) don't always see eye to eye, Girl Scouts has done Journey a world of good. I do not regret it for an instant, because I'm seeing things in her now that are going to take her very far in life as she gets older. |
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