T & H,
Very relieved she is safe(even if a bit lousy with attitude). My prayer circles will be delighted, I'll keep out the friction for them, let them feel they helped.
I don't have a daughter yet and I don't mean to tell you how to be a parent by any means, but if it were me I would tell her how you felt when she disappeared like that and that if I knew the kind of thanks I got from her I would have left her lost as she is not the daughter I thought I had.
And before anybody in these forums gets all incensed about this type of response, When I was twelve my Mom freaked out when I went with a friend camping in the local woods and I forgot to tell her exactly when or even where. I mentioned it in passing the night before and when she woke up the next morning I was already gone, tent and everything. When I showed up Sunday evening she laid into me like a Wolverine and I got all P.O.'d as well and blew her off. About twenty minutes later when she cooled down she came to my room and laid that bit on me where she shouldn't have been so worried and tried looking everywhere for me because I apparently wasn't the son she thought she had. Mom then turned around and didn't talk to me for two days. I felt so horrid about what I did that I found every way I could to apologise and make it up to her. Mom was the most important person in my life, and still is to some extent. You see, she passed away in my arms 23 days before my 15th birthday. That is a lot of the reason I am who I am today, everything I do, I wonder if she is casting a critical eye upon me from heaven, and the last thing I want to do is disappoint her.
That said,
Peace, Brother
Jeff ''Teddybear'' Merrill
