So proud...

Usually my posts are giving out about or poking fun at the kid. Yes, I am a bad parent. But this
time I am going to wax lyrical about her. I think I mentioned in a previous post about her winning
some competition for her poster for disablity. She came first in over-16 section. And won a PSP.
There was an awards ceremony on Friday and we took a half day off work to attend. It was the annual school awards ceremony. The principal read out the list of things they would be giving awards out in. Myself and Mammy2 had a good giggle when he mentioned excelling in PE and an award for attendence. She wouldn't be in either of those 2 categories for sure. But the creativity in art, defo. She got the award for art and for creaativity in writing. Can you imagine if she took up music?
There'd be no stopping her.

Once all the school awards were over, they presented a few special ones, one of which was the psp which the kid won. The principal started talking about her, and I swear I wanted to stand up and let everyone know she was our kid. I was bursting. He mentioned a lot of her art work which was hanging around the school and how she's produced some of the best art to come out of the school. At this stage, myself and Mammy2 were beaming. The kid was quite red heading up to collect her prize. Afterwards, the vice chatted to us, asking were we proud. Was it not obvious from the size of our heads? Apparently, she wants the kid to paint her a picture. Knowing the kid, she'll probably charge her for her.

I may have mentioned before about how sometimes she can be a bit obessed with her health and all things sickness related. I'm not sure where it comes from. But her latest is that she thinks she is suffering from osteoporosis. They were talking about it in some class and she's pretty sure she has it. Mammy2 burst out laughing whilst I was unsure how to react. Thankfully she had a smile on her face whilst talking to us about it, so the laughing at it wouldn't have offended her. Then she lands another one on us. She was thinking of getting hypnotherapy to deal with her coin problem.

When we say coin problem, we don't mean she's doing lines of 5 cent pieces so you can get that out of your head straight away. For some bizzare reason she is scared of all coins. Something about them being filthy dirty. I have never heard of anyone else who was scared of them. Funny its not notes that bother her. I think its something to do with the amount of germs that coins collect. Who knows. Mammy2 explained that hynotherpy would not work on her. The kid responds by saying a mate of mine had it done. This goes back to my college days when a hypnotist came to the college and sent someone in the crowd accidently under hynosis and they thought they were a chicken for a while. Hardly the same thing, Mammy2 explained. I offered to make tea.

She has 8 days left in school of which most of them are taken up with exams. She appears to be doing okay, a lot of stress causing tummy upsets. I can't wait for the Leaving Cert year, if its anything like the Junior Cert year, I'm moving to Guam. I suppose she'll be wanting acupuncture for the stress of that.