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Well, what do you know?; I actually did something to impress Fifteen.
Topic Started: Feb 10 2012, 11:41 PM (263 Views)
Dewey
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HOLY CARP!!!
All the times I've been to Honduras to Montana de Luz , and my involvement with it stateside, Fifteen must have been completely oblivious. I remember all the times I begged her mother, her, and her sister to come along with me, and all the times the response was a scrunched up face and a scowl.

I've known that Fifteen has had a change of heart about the idea over the past year. She's active in her youth group/church (not mine), and she'll be doing a mission trip to Chicago sometime soon, and she's told me that she wants to do a mission trip to MdL. But, she says, she wants to go on a trip without me being there - which is totally fine with me; I want her to have her own experience there, and not experience it as "Dewey's daughter."

So I get a text message from Fifteen yesterday evening:

15: Hey when u worked for MdL did you ever meet a C____ F____?
Me: No, can't place the name, sorry
15: Think!!! He's tall and has a buzz cut and he speaks perfect Spanish! (turns out it's her French teacher, and he's been to MdL)
Me: Sorry honey, lots of MdL people out there I've never met
15: BTW, R________ D________ says hi! (she's the trip coordinator/leader for MdL; I've known her for a long time)
Me: Cool - where did you talk with her? Actually, I thought she was in Honduras at MdL right now.
15: She just got back a couple days ago, and I just got off the phone with her. I'm planning on going this summer.
Me: Awesome! Tell me all the details at dinner! (we all went to a Japanese steakhouse in honor of Nineteen's last night here before going back to school)
15: So, did you used to run MdL?
Me: "Run?" Hardly. All the hard work was done by the people in the field. But I was its President and Chairman of the Board, helping to guide it through a particularly difficult time, and I was a regular Board member for a number more years.
15: Really? Wow - cool beans! :)

This from the child who spent a solid 45 minutes recently telling me, almost without stopping to breathe, how I was a terrible father who ruined her childhood and who neglected her and never cared for her, and that I had ruined our marriage and our family, and she hated us all and couldn't wait till she was 18 and could be rid of me and all the rest of us. And a half an hour later, was telling me all about her life, schoolwork, and joking with me. Teenagers.

Huh. My kid was actually impressed by something I've done. Don't ever tell me that anything is impossible. ^_^

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jon-nyc
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cool beans.

i didn't like my parents much in my later teens... then we became friends.
it behooves me to behold
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George K
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Fifteen, you say?

That awe will last about, oh lemee think....2 days.

Then, she'll go back to being 15.

If you *really* want to impress them, you'll have to wait until they're 25.
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Axtremus
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C'mon, there must be a time they were impressed when you could stand up on two legs and they couldn't. :D
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George K
Feb 11 2012, 06:19 AM
Fifteen, you say?

That awe will last about, oh lemee think....2 days.

Then, she'll go back to being 15.

If you *really* want to impress them, you'll have to wait until they're 25.
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I couldn't agree more...you ain't near out of the woods , yet, Pastor.
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Horace
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Cool, Dewey.
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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Cool beans indeed!
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