Prom

So last week at this time, my Mom and I were feverishly trying to get my daughter's prom dress done. Alix had designed a dress that was inspired by the Katherine Hepburn dress in The Aviator. She had consturcted it very interestingly using a dress dummy, pinning the material, whacking off sections then sewing it together. We were able to finish it, sewing her into it as her date came down the driveway. As long as you didn't look too closely at some of the finish sewing she looked awesome. She did her corsage and his buttionaire and made him a matching hankercief for his front pocket. When she returned at midnight to be cut out of the dress and change for afterprom I asked if she had a good time. "It was greatttt!"
Our relationship has improved steadily this year as she matures into a young adult. It is difficult for me to believe that she will soon fly the coop off to college. And knowing that she will be 800 miles away, too far for weekends at home, is a bit daunting also. But I am reminded of how I have much "growing and learning" also as she has just left with her friend Jorie for a major shopping trip to Cinci. Not that many years ago the very thought of cutting them loose in the city would have been unthinkable. Of course that was before the trip into the art museum last spring to get her portfolio appraised by professors from the Cincinatti Art Academy. On that trip with her friend Katie, they managed to get lost in Over the Rhine on a Saturday evening. OTR is one of, if not the worst areas for drugs and crime in Cincinatti. When she called in a panic she said she was going east on a highway. After many prayers were frantically being uttered while we looked up where she could possibley be, we called again. In that short 5 minutes she had found herself on the correct interstate and was heading west for home. An angel's work, I don't know but I am sure that her angel will have many such adventures to handle. She has learned to print out the directions to and from a destination. And I have learned to relax but say a lot of prayers.