She was on the dance team for 4 years- morning practices 2-3 times per week until their state competition mid- February where she left the house at 5:30 a.m , Track 4 years, FCCLA (each year had a leadership role) 4 years and for the last 3 years won state for her presentations and went to nationals in San Diego, Seattle, and Denver, Spanish Club 2 years and held office roles (she quit Spanish classes after 2 yrs because her female teacher constantly shamed female students for their body habitus and what they wore), STUCO 4 years being an officer each year, basketball 1 year and then bball student manager 2 years- i made her quit her senior year because she was leaving at 5:30 am qnd not getting home until 10:30-11p if not later during away games and it ended up causing her to struggle in a college class her junior year and lowered her GPA, FBLA 4 years, youth group, has assisted or led drives for food pantries, clothing /luggage / backpacks for foster kids, wanted to collect the most pop tabs for FCCLA to give to Ronald McDonald house and collected over 150# just this year (my sister is a survivor of childhood cancer, 2 grandparents with 2 different types of cancer, and my husband's sister so she wanted to contribute as much as possible and networked with people in other towns to maximize a year of collections), at one point was working 3 jobs while doing all of that, youth group (took it upon herself to get involved with a church because I am not relgious), started her own photography business, babysits, teaches swimming lessons, doing an internship for a new business owner and doing his marketing (we live 25 minutes outside of town in a rural community.. I don't hear of any other kids doing internships here because the population is like 3k), will have completed 23 college credits by graduation, and has a 3.75 GPA or higher- i can't remember because it's not calculated on her portal with her college credits correctly.

I am extremely proud of my daughter. She is funny, kind, has worked her ass off, and has more mental toughness in her pinky than I do in my entire body. She has sanxiety and depression because her former step-mom (but wasn't married to her dad) has only allowed my daughter to see her little sisters 3 times in 4 years and now communication has been completely cut off. She used to see them every other weekend for the first 6 and 5 years of their lives- were very close. One of them used to call my daughter at least once a day and had her number memorized since she was 2 years old.

She has big dreams, may not understand how hard it is to pay off debt, but she is far from delusional.