PROMISE KEPT

For Christmas one year we got a card from our number three daughter with a written promise saying that one day we would really be proud of her. It was no secret that we had enormous differences of opinion.

She fulfilled that promise by starting college while taking care of her two children and her husband. After graduating with a 4.0, she started a fulfilling career teaching special education students as well as earning her master’s degree again graduating with highest honors.

This was not something we had pushed for, we just wanted her to achieve her own potential. The goals she obtained were something she already had inside of her and we were extremely proud but no one can be prouder than she is of herself.

I would hope that one day her own daughter would send her the same message, just a few words. “Mom, I promise someday you will be really proud of me”