Everwhere is walking distance if you have the time

[ClingingToHope]

It turns out D13 will be going to the camp. She promised her friend and doesn't want to back out on her.

I picked her up from her week long theater camp and we had an excellent ride home. She's processing lots of teen stuff and the best thing I can do is not add to the stress.

I apologized for being short with her on the phone Thursday night when she said she'd rather do the bible camp.

I told her I avoid her mom's church because that's where we got married. She said she figured that was the reason.

I too want to be stronger. I was at D13's theater camp and they were doing a one hour version of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Joseph had so many tragic things happen to him and he kept getting back up -- like a weeble wobble. And I can't get past an uneducated, unmotivated, unimaginative woman wanting a motorcycle riding, beer drinking simpleton over me.

Then I have that thought and I wonder, where does that anger and bitterness come from and how do I get rid of it?

Anyway, at camp I was watching the final number and trying to imagine D13 10 to 12 years from now. I want her homecoming and prom and high school graduation and college graduation and marriage and birth of her children to be celebrations, not awkward worries over pleasing her mother or father.

Overall, I try to refocus on the fact that the arc of my life is moving in a good direction. If I stay on the path, I will be more than fine. I will thrive. I just have to convince myself that is enough.