I've heard about teenagers and trust issues, but I never expected to have the latter as my former teenagers had been completely trust worthy. I'm still at the mad-as-a-hornet-want-to-rip-a-head-off-phase and am eternally grateful for a husband with a much cooler outlook. Do teenagers not realise they have the world if their parents trust them and they have their room if that trust is lost? One of our kids' trust bank account is at flat O. In fact, it has been overdrawn a lot lately and the statement just arrived. Life as she knew it is on the severely endangered list and only with extreme care will it ever reach its prior levels. I honestly think this is the first time in my life I was too angry to even talk with the child in question.

I'm looking forward to the disappointed phase. The sorrow phase. The empathetic phase. Perhaps then I can understand the why, the sheer stupidity, and foolishness that was part of the not thinking things through phase of a 16 year old.

Best advice tonight was to go to the temple, pray and stay on my knees after Amen, and let Jim do the talking, when we talk about it tomorrow .