Hello everyone I decided to do my first story and since I didnt take pictures of me and my husband while we were together I started documenting my daughters life, so here she is my college student Sophie:


This is Sophie calling her worried mom to tell me that she is at the new dorms and she has everything packed away safe. Being a A+ student all her life Im trying not to worry to much about her being very far away in the desert for college.

So college was going great for her until she met Adien

This was the first time in her life that she had had a real boyfriend. And with the boyfriend came the slipping of the grades. Sometimes when she came home now I didnt even recognize her, she pierced her nose and starting dressing like those girls in the music videos. I almost dropped dead when she came to visit one weekend and told me that changed her major to drama so that she could be a movie star in Hollywood.
ME- "Sophie how could you do that. All your life you have wanted to be in journalism. Why are you letting some boy come between you and what you wanted?"
SOPHIE- " Mom hes not some boy I love him. I can't wait until we get married. We are going to be as happy as you and dad you just watch. And being an actress I will be making so much money I will buy you and dad your dream house, you'll have a maid, and a chef it will be fun and I know I can do it. Im beatiful, smart, and young.
ME-" I know that you are beatiful and smart, but think about the young part honey. Please reconsider this. At least think about it some more. And you are way to young to be getting married, you are a freshman in college only 19 wait awhile before you make such a big jump."

And so began the battle to keep my sanity

While I was trying to keep it together Sophie was having the time of her life at college

I was hoping that her relationship with Adien would end soon but by midterms they were taking it much farther. Josh (my husband and her father) had no clue how to deal with the situation. She had never acted like this before. She was very well mannered and clean cut when she lived at home. We tried to plead with her to move closer to home but she wouldnt have it.


Yes thats a ring on her finger. He proposed to her. I felt horrible and wanted to go get her and drag her home, but I thought about it and maybe this will be good for her. I mean she seems happy and I cant do anything about, so I will just be happy that she is happy.

After her sophmore year she transfered colleges a few towns over to get a better education. I admit I was alittle happy that Adien was staying behind and not going with. We talked her into getting a part time job in the cafe at the dorms to make some extra money.

Everythin was starting to look up. The best part was that she was away from Adien and now talking about her partner for one of her drama classes Mike. I was hopeing and praying that she would leave Adien for this guy. He seemed great, she would tell me about him for hours. How they stayed up doign homwork, and goofing around. The best part was since she had been working with him she got herself a spot on the deans list.


Studying late was what I was used to her talking about I felt for she that she was back to herself again. She was still talking to Adien on the phone and he would visit every once in awhile, but Mike seemed to have brought her back to herself.

During her senior year her and Adien started fighting A LOT. About everything, he wanted Sophie to quit college and move to a house with him since he already graduated. And thank God Sophie didnt want to. Adien was trying everything in the book to get her to move. Even saying that if she wanted to be his wife that she had to do it. One day she had had enough.

I was so happy that she broke it off with him but sad to see her hurting.