Love and Limits

Tonight was our first love and limits class.  It is a 2 hour class that  meets for 6 weeks and  we also have one on one coaching in the home once a week.  It was a great class tonight to meet other parents who are having the same struggles, thoughts, and feelings with their teens.  I am ashamed to admit that I expected to go in to the class and meet "different" parents.  Different as in the parents that I am battling with Kylie...the parents that don't care where their teen is or what they are doing.  I was proven very wrong.  The parents I met tonight were parents just like us.  Trying their very best to help their teen(s) and have felt they have exhausted every option in the process.  They were parents who wanted to know where their children were.  They were parents who had marriage struggles because of their struggling children and they were parents that love their kids just like us.

After class Trav went back to Blackfoot and Kylie and I went to the church where they were having young women's in excellence program.  We were hoping to get there in time for part the program but we didn't make it.  We got there just as it was ending.   I was happy to see Kylie reuniting with friends from church.  It has been a while since she has seen the and I enjoyed watching her interact with them and her leaders.  I just can't express how much I love the ward. 

Kylie wanted to spend time with a couple friends tonight.  I was not completely in favor of it.  It turned out though because both friends she was going to see both had other plans.  That helped a lot and Kylie did not get upset about it and she didn't keep trying to figure out a way to leave the house.  She just decided to hang out with Cali and we watched a little 19 kids and Counting together.  (Love that show!)  Steps in the right direction!