Yesterday was the day finally. Katie is now a high school graduate.
As a father, I'm proud of her. Her graduation party is next Saturday.
In addition, she got her class schedule for the local community college the other day (along with the invoice). So the next steps are to get a job, and apartment, and a student loan for school.
It has been a very rough ride, and it still quite bumpy. Katie and Diane don't get along at all any more, and pretty much avoid each other. The same is basically true with her brothers.
Katie turns 19 next month - and like the proverbial butterfly it is time for her to leave the cocoon and fly.
I've tried to teach her what I can, but I fear that the lessons she needs to learn now can only be learned on her own.
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This is our online journal of getting back to a healthy family. In September of 2005, we enrolled my daughter Katie in a specialty boarding school for troubled teens. It was one of the most difficult decisions we have ever had to make. As part of that I attempted to find information - and all I got was marketing. So we decided to start this to help other parents - a way to share what we have gone through, and are going through.
We hope to keep this updated at least weekly - but possibly daily as things happen that affect Katie and the rest of the family.
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