the SABRINA post

I wrote this in Feb when my friend got guff for being proud of her daughter on MySpace.... it seems others from her daughters peer group thought the atta-girl was inappropriate. Sabrina has since graduated with a 4.02GPA High Honours, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude and the Spanish department award. It was a wonder she could walk in her cap and gown with all the extra stuff she was decorated with.
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I am proud of my daughter DAMN PROUD and nothing anyone says anywhere on MySpace or anywhere else is ever going to change that .

Eleven years ago I found myself newly divorced and moving into a trailer park on EIGHT MILE ROAD.... Yes all you lurkers... it is the same EIGHT MILE ROAD that the EMINEM movie was about. We are Detroit biaches and there is nothing wrong with that. I chose that little one bedroom trailer on Eight Mile road because it was something I could afford. There were better apartments that were the same price or even cheaper but they were not in school districts that I wanted to raise my little girl in. Even in the middle of first grade I understood the investment we were making in her education. I explained to her then that life for her was going to be different, that she would be going to a University and she would be able to work the career of her choosing. That she would never have to wipe ass, wait tables or do light assembly to merely get by.

To all you ass wipers, wait staff and factory workers lurking; this was not said or written to put you down, it was said to build my daughter up.... if wiping ass waiting tables or doing grunt assembly work was your Mama's ideal for you more power to you and to her.

A few years later God opened a door to a rental program in even a better school district and through out faith we were able to move. I raised my daughter to be a high achiever and I will not apologise for that either. She has always gone for that brass ring and that is a good thing. We were always on our game even in grade school. Things got serious on Junior High for success in Junior high is the building block for high school. High School effort pays off in University placement.

Sabrina played trumpet in grade school, made first chair in Junior high and took clarinet (an instrument she bought and paid for herself) as a second instrument. She loved band but let it pass for the greater challenges of high school. She also played basketball in a city league through grade school and junior high and in an organised neighbourhood soft ball league in Junior high and High school.

High school brought bigger fish to fry and she made the hard choice to table band and basketball. High school brought about leadership training opportunities in Student Council, Student Congress and Patriots Relate, three well respected student organisations. She has earned her Activity letter. Striving for personal physical fitness she has earned her Varsity Athletic letters in both Track and Cross Country. She is carrying a 3.97 going into her last semester of high school and has earned her Academic letter as well.

Sabrina has a strong faith in God and in Jesus Christ and has found her own Church community. She is active in the youth group there, using a Strong's Concordance to write and deliver the monthly sermon for the Youth Invasion Service. As a fourth year Spanish student she is also writing her sermon in Spanish, pushing her convictions on the real meaning of separation of Church and state to their outmost limits. She studies the Bible in Spanish and sings Spanish praise and worship in her spare time.

Her hard work has paid off as she will be able to attend the UNIVERSITY of her choice and earn a Masters degree in the field of her choosing.

I am damn proud of my daughter and proud of anyone having the grit it takes to realize their dreams and beyond.

This was written for and about my daughter and is not directed against any lurkers. So you lurkers can stop the SNOWSTORM in your mind.... Sometimes you can manage to snow even yourself. I will put this in simple concise terms:
MY DAUGHTER IS MY HERO!
THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU.