Soccer Chick smiled yesterday.
A real smile.
The kind that comes from deep within your soul and lights up your eyes.
I hadn’t seen that in a long time.
All because I told her she could drive herself and Rockin Rooster to church yesterday afternoon…without me.
Have you ever seen the commercial for Disney Cruise Lines? The one with the teenage daughter who seems to be sour all the time until the camera catches her cracking a smile when she’s on a jetski? Of course the smile disappears when she realizes she’s being watched. But the fact that she’s having fun is enough to break through.
That’s Soccer Chick.
She quickly started texting “Guy Friend,” but decided that the news was too good to type. She had to tell him in person. While she was talking, I hollered over, loud enough for him to hear, about how wonderful I am. She turned, not agitated as she usually is, but with a smile spread from ear to ear.
Of course, I couldn’t let her drive off without the obligatory spiel…don’t fight with your brother, don’t answer the cell phone even if it’s your wonderful, sweet Mama calling…yada, yada, yada.
Then I watched her go out to the car.
“Wait a second,” I shouted, as I ran inside to grab my camera. Moments like this must be captured for posterity.
The first picture (which I cannot post because you can see the kids’ faces, thus breaking my promise for anonymity) shows them both smiling…car is still in the garage.
I snapped another as she was backing out.
Then, she stopped, as instructed, and they both waved.
Click.
Then, off they went. I got one last picture of the back of the car going down the road.
Sigh…
One day she’ll be leaving home for good.
Sigh…
She called me about ten minutes later to let me know they had arrived safely, and I followed her home from church after my own Bible study. She did a marvelous job. I’ve taught her well.
Sigh…
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