My daughter Leirin has always amazed me. At 12 she knows what her life's purpose is and she's making plans to get on with it. If she is going to be a vet and own a horse farm where she can run a breeding program and photograph horses whenever she wants she figured she should have an early start. She gets straight A's in school. Has more common sense than many adults I know and and she is forever doing things that surprise and amaze me.

Like today...she got the chicken pox. This after having had a mild case of them at age two and being vaccinated against the pox 3 years ago. She knows how to do it up right too - she's got them awful bad, they're even in her mouth (poor baby) and still she will say she don't feel bad even though she can hardly stay awake because she's so tired.

She takes the impossible and makes it something routine for her. No wonder I love that girl.