Happy Birthday Britt

My baby girl turns 21 today. It's been a rocky road sometimes with this beautiful young woman. When she was 13, she decided she couldn't live with her brother and me any more and asked if she could go live with her father.

I knew exactly what he would say, but I told her if that was what she wanted, she would have to call him and ask if was okay. He gave every excuse in the book as to why it wouldn't be a good idea. The clincher was that the out of state tuition would be too much. Give me a break! Tuition in 8th grade?

Since that didn't work out, Britt asked if she could go live with Grandma and Grandpaw in Indiana. That was about as successful as talking to her father. Who do you think he learned the BS from?

After all was said and done, miss Britt spent six weeks going to school in Reno, NV and living with my sister and her husband. At 18, she turned around and went back to live with my sister again because that was when Jimbob and I got married and she felt alienated.

Last year my beautiful little girl got married to some guy 10 years older on Mother's Day. I didn't know a thing about it until my sister asked why I hadn't told her that Britt got married? It seems they only bothered to tell his side of the family. I still have yet to even speak to the guy. When she calss I hear in the background, "Who are you talking to?"

I have my conjectures as to why they kept the wedding a secrete, but it doesn't matter because it's already done. I pray every day that my child is happy and safe. I could have shut the door on her because of the hurt she caused me, but who would I be kidding? She's still my baby and I want her to be happy. And if things don't work out, she knows I'm still here for her.