Update

Well…… I guess you all noticed that I have been rather quiet for the past week or so….. or maybe not, but anyway I have. Thank you all for the comments on my last post, as you probably can imagine that post goes a long way to explaining my lack of blogging.
I guess first I should update you on the situation. My daughter is still away, she is living at a friends mother’s house, in a spare room and has made arrangements to get an apartment with her boyfriend. He has quit his part time job, for a full time position in a restaurant, which he is confident, will bring him in more than enough money to pay the bills. He also intends to stay on full time college which will make him a very busy young man indeed. Part of the financial plan worked out included dumping her car and cell phone, co signed on by her grandparents, who I am sure are only to happy to have a third car in a different state that they will have to make payments on now (Hope you picked up the sarcasm there), unless someone out there wants to pay showroom price for a 6 month old car with some damage to the drivers side ?!?!?!
On the other hand we have at least made contact with her and managed to reconcile at least enough to be able to talk. We are not going to say anything about her plans she is after all old enough to make those decisions, even though we know she will regret them in the long run, but I guess she is only going to learn the hard way. Ironically she is going to end up stuck at home on a Thursday night, as well as Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, while the BF works and she is stranded in the apartment without a car, This past Monday she actually came and visited us!
Oh well what can you do, we are fairly resigned now to the fact that she is going her own way and as much as we would like to protect her from the harsh realities of the world it just isn’t going to work out the way we intended.