Yay!!!! My good little girl is back!

[Misspoker]

 I have to say.... in the past couple of weeks, I'd begun to worry that Sierra was heading in a direction I wasn't prepared to handle .  Since we came back from vacation and visiting her father, she has had such a hard time getting back on schedule and she has really been testing her boundary.  I was concerned about her last week because of her behavior at school.  On Thursday, I received two calls from different teachers telling me about the terrible day she was having.  On one of the calls, I could even hear Sierra screaming and crying in the background.  According to her, it was my fault she was having a bad day because I woke her up late for school so she didn't get to take a shower.  Well, this was the first time I had heard of it.  She had not said anything to me about it that morning.  When she got home, we had a long discussion about the events of the day and I assured her it would not happen again because now that she had expressed her feeling so clearly at school, I would make sure to have her set her own alarm and if she didn't get up early enough, it sure wouldn't be my fault.  She wasn't very fond of this newly appointed responsibility but I took special care in explaining to her now she had nobody to blame but herself if she didn't get a shower in the morning.....and, she had better find a REALLY good reason for this type of behavior if it happened again.

  She came home from school today to tell me she had a "Great Day"!!!  I was so glad to hear that.  Most of the time when she comes home from school, she wants to have a snack and play for a few minutes before starting on her homework.  Not today.  She came into the bathroom where I was taking a shower, to let me know she was home and to say hello.  I asked her to please try to get her Language Arts homework completed by the time I finished my shower which would be about ten minutes.  I had no expectation of her actually getting it done because it consisted of writing her spelling words four times each and there were twenty words.  SHE WAS FINISHED!!!! and working on the next page.  Amazing!  I was truly impressed.  She has never finished it that quickly and neatly and she has this same homework with different words every week.  As I finished getting myself ready to take her to Sylvan, she completed the other two pages and her Social Studies homework.  I told her what a great job she did and how proud I was of her and she just smiled a cheesy little smile and said, "I know, mom, I'm glad I made you happy."  She continued the course throughout the rest of the day and evening, going to Sylvan and doing good work there, having Mickey D's for dinner after (and offering to pay for it with her allowance), getting herself ready for bed, reading and going to sleep with no problems.  She even had time to sit at the table and write a little note inside of the Mother's Day card she is sending my mother tomorrow.  What a good day!  What a good little girl (or should I say young lady) I have been blessed with.  It gives me such relief when she gets herself back on track like that and it fills my heart with such joy to know that she knows how little it takes from her to make me happy.  Just showing how easy it is for her to be the good girl I have worked so hard to raise, means the world to me.  What more could I ask for from her?  Absolutely nothing.  Sweet dreams to my Angel Face!!! I love you all the way up to the moon & stars!!!