ACCOMPLISHMENTS!!!!!
Woo Hoo!!!!! We all love to do well at something and we all love when we accomplish something. As parents, we all love to tell about our kids accomplishments. The last couple of weeks we have accomplished a fair bit!

ASHLEIGH - She turned 18 and got her drivers license all in one week. A big thing for me to see my baby turn 18 and realize she is 18!!!!! I tried to prepare myself for months. I read somewhere that encouraged moms to lament your children growing older but celebrate it - so I did!!! Everytime I thought about her as a little girl and how I miss that cute little face I would think about her now and all of the exciting things she is about to do and become. On her birthday I kept making a big deal about her being a "young adult". I think it worked! She also had her grad pictures taken and THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

HANNAH - She finished her first semester of high school with excellent marks and that was her hardest semester. She should cruise through this semester. Her synchronized figure skating team finished second out of 7 teams in Skate Dartmouth and 2nd at the PEI Provincial competition. She has also become quite an accomplished earring artist!

LAURYN - Lauryn just finished her first season playing basketball for her school. She has never played before and she made the team. She has gotten quite tall - About 5'8' and used her heighth to develop into quite a decent post player. Her team won their division and came in second in the province. When they were playing the semi-final game for the provincials her team was only ahead by 1 point in the second half and the coach put Lauryn in. I was a little nervous when I saw that but (yes, this a proud momma talking) she rose to the occasion. She scored a basket putting them ahead by 3. She stole the ball and got 2 critical rebounds - Yea for Lauryn. He put her again with a 1point lead and she did the same thing again. Lauryn also got all of her 6 needed scales for band completed before the last day they were to be done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

MOLLY - Molly has managed to finally get over the flu. She has been sick for 2 weeks and last weekend finally got some antibiotics and decent cough med. that helps her sleep. and her mom sleep as well. Her biggest accomplishment - getting the pill down. Oh that is a story and one I hope never to have to repeat! I was a little shocked at our Little PRincesses behavior! But we finally did it.

As I look at their accomplishments it makes me feel good as a mom - I think I (along with Chris of course) have 4 awesome accomplishments!