My wild, beautiful teenage daughter is graduating in June (dial up warning)

[riderinthestorm]

I've posted some about her - 17 yrs old and has given me ALL the gray hairs I currently sport.

She decided to leave her old community high school and start "fresh" in CA, living with my older daughter - her sister - and finish her junior AND senior years of high school in ONE year.

Well it looks as though she's going to pull it off! She just emailed me a few of her "senior" pictures and I'm just so proud of her. Some of you have been following her saga during the past 3 years so I thought I'd post something positive....(the last picture is from prom last year but I just love her big grin!)

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[cyberswede]

1. Lovely! Congrats to your daughter!~

Her prom date is hilarious (if that's what the last photo is from).

[riderinthestorm]

6. He's a good egg. Obviously they're not still together since she's in CA and he's in IL

Also, he joined the Air National Guard and all his curly locks have been shaved off! He starts boot camp this summer for the Air Force...

[LeftofObama]

2. She is just beautiful!

Congrats to you both!

[Texasgal]

3. Beautiful young lady!

You must be one proud Mama!

[Raine1967]

4. Beautiful!

and your daughter is lovely too!

I love stories like this. Congrats to you and your daughter, rider.

My niece, also my godchild, had a hellova time getting across that line to graduation. She spent a summer with us, the summer before senior year. Those two months were amazing and tough.

She didn't think she would graduate -- much less get into college. She had no money -- (didn't have a job) was complacent, etc.

Turns out, (and this very proud aunt is taking some credit) she went back home, got a job, (and awesome job at a nursing home that she worked weekends and holidays -- union as well) saved up money, started Senior year and didn't get a grade less than 90 for any of her classes.

She is now a freshman at SUNY Canton. My pride in that young woman knows no bounds.

Congratulations, once again!

I love seeing stories like this!

[riderinthestorm]

7. I'm sooooo glad to hear about your niece.

That mischievous curl to my daughter's smile (I call it her "hidden kiss" like Mrs. Darling's in Peter Pan) has literally taken my husband and I on the worst emotional and physical roller coaster ride.

She's definitely going on to college. I just hope she can "stay on the rails" while she's away from home without any boundaries. She's fearless and very, very intelligent. That's worked in both good and bad ways, alas.

But today I got the pictures and thought, "I'm going to celebrate this".

Good luck to your niece! And a hug to you for getting her through...

[Le Taz Hot]

5. Beautiful young lady

and very photogenic!

[Earth_First]

8. Congratulations, friend!

Best wishes to your daughter!

We will be sending ours out into the world in almost two years time...

...dont want to realize that just yet.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. Congratulations, riderinthestorm

You have a lovely daughter and I am glad to hear the good news.

[retread]

10. What is "dial up"?

[B Calm]

11. Thanks to our wonderful congress who don't want

spend stimulus money, it's what people who live outside of the city limits have. Unless they want to spend at the very least $60 plus a month for slow satellite broadband.

[riderinthestorm]

12. +1. I'm rural and lived with dialup internet access so I know to put a warning

A thread like this with so many pictures would never load (hours literally hours of waiting). Or it would crash my computer.

Every so often a poll gets posted on DU asking about what kind of service everyone uses and according to the last one I saw within the last year or so there still are some using dialup.

Although I have to admit I had a funny flashback to my kids first sight of a rotary phone - they had no idea how to "input" the telephone number. ...



I'm guessing there's now a percentage of youngsters who have never heard of a 56bit modem...

[Chan790]

13. Oh dear...rotary phones.

My grandmother refused to give hers up. They said Mrs. Channing, we'll give you a new free phone, it'll be clearer and easier to use...you'll love it. (Maintaining functional compatibility for the small (we're talking like 10 people) handful of people with pulse rotary phones was costing them thousands of dollars a month.)

She retorted "That's what you said when you took away my party-line. I'm done listening to you."

When they sent the tech anyways, my grandfather threatened to shoot him for trespassing. As it stands now, we have the longest in-continual-service phone number in the state...it's been the same number since they switched over from party-line and 6-digit numbers in the early 1960s.

I'm never giving up this phone number. It'll be mine until it's a 100 goddamned years old.

[riderinthestorm]

15. We had a rotary phone until just 6 years ago!

A big old red one that was mounted on the wall at about the five foot level with about 20 foot of cord, REALLY heavy (I'm sure your grandparents' is too). I always joked it would be my secret weapon against an intruder - just throw that phone at them, it would kill them instantly.

Ah... the good old days

We're completely land-line free now. All cell phones. Maybe you know this but you can transfer your land-line number to a cell phone! I just did that with Sprint for my barn line (nobody ever ran for the phone and so it never got answered. At least now someone has a chance of reaching us on the "business" line.)

So I'm guessing you really CAN keep your number for the next 100 years.

[My Good Babushka]

14. She is a beauty!

What a beautiful, confident and accomplished young woman! You must be very proud!