teenagers! my sweet, good baby was caught skipping school.

[mopinko]

it has been quite the battle to get her out of bed and off to school. she doesn't sleep well, and gets up stressed and feeling pukey. turns out that she has been just riding the el around, not going to school.
she has always been a good kid, and trustworthy. so we did buy the song and dance she was giving us for a while. but the house of cards collapsed on thursday and she is now grounded at least until after our monday meeting with the teachers, et al. she had big plans for halloween, and for today. a big larp, i guess. she has been doing lots of housework to try to get off the hook. i am having a really hard time not caving.
after an hour of sitting and sobbing on the stairs she came up to sob in her room. she is keeping it in earshot. poor kid. but this is for real. she had a lot of trouble last year, as a freshman. she ended up in summer school. but she got it done. now we are going down that road again.
oh, wait. we aren't going down that road. we are nipping that shit in the bud right now.
sob on, sweetie. we can take our punishment. we gotta.


but jeeeeeezzzz.