Cutelin!!

Well, her favorite color is black so I thought I'd write about her in grey...Caitlin is a beautiful, funny, aggravating, smart and about to graduate from high school and start her life. She's moving to Chicago with her friend Rachel. She's going to go to college. Of course all of this is contingent on her getting financial aid.

Caitlin has a troubled relationship with her dad, my first husband. For some reason, in their family, girls are treated like complete shit. She knows this and seems to deal with it ok but it's really weird. I feel sorry for her dad, he doesn't know anything about her and will never know as much as he should. How he can live with himself, I'll never know. He's probably seen her 4 times in the last year and doesn't ever call her. He yells at her, saying she should be calling him. Whatever dude.

Caitlin is a great writer, artistic, but not in a drawing way, in every other way. She is funny and impatient. (Seems to be a theme with my kids). She has lots of good friends. Her friends are fun. They make me laugh. I am so excited for her to grow up, she has no idea. She just thinks we want her to move out so Alec can have her room. Little does she know that her mother is proud and can't wait to see how she turns out....She wants to be a lawyer. We'll see.....

Caitlin was born with a congenital birth defect in her right collar bone, it was in two pieces when she was born. It didn't bother her too much until she was 15 and so we had to get it surgically repaired. The surgery was really painful for her and then she had to have surgery to have a pin removed. Then about 10 months later, she got into a car accident. She told me her collar bone was hurting but didn't tell me about the car accident because lo and behold she had been skipping school. (Ask her how pissed I was when I got a copy of the police report). I got a call from home while I was at work, saying that Caitlin went to change her shirt and felt the bone break. Can you say OUCH?? Can you say don't lie to your mother and don't skip school? So they had to go in and fix it again. Ira (her ortho guy, who is very cute and a very nice doctor)was not happy. So they fixed it and then the pin broke so they took part of it out. And the rest is sitting in her collar bone pointed straight at her heart. So we get xrays every couple months to make sure it's not going to kill her.

I love Caitlin with all my heart and I can't wait til she grows up.