So things with Miss B gradually got worse.  The year of 2006 was pretty bad.  She did come to see us some, usually with a friend.  Which was okay with me, I just wanted to get to see her.  Most of the time when she had a friend with her she didn’t do a whole lot with us, but just having her here made me happy.  After our daughter Peanut was born, it took Miss B several weeks to be able to make the time to come see her.  She did spend some time with us in the months after Peanut was born.

The year of 2007 was even worse than 2006.  I don’t think we saw her 10 times the entire year.  Then at Christmas time in 2007 I noticed that she had posted on MySpace (the way that her and I communicated) that she was now an Atheist.  So, I told George about it.  We were pretty upset because as Christians, this was a huge deal to us.  Looking back, I know that George should have cooled down before he called her, but he didn’t.  They ended up arguing.  In the end Miss B felt unloved and unaccepted, which is a terrible way for a teenager to feel.  It isn’t at all how we feel about her- we love her and accept her no matter what.  We just don’t agree with the choices she is making.

So, Miss B refused to see us at all.  And since Crazy (Miss B’s mom) lets Miss B make all of her own choices, she didn’t have to see us if she didn’t want to.  It was a quiet and sad Christmas without her.  We didn’t see her again until February when she spent a weekend with us.  Since then she has been to our house only a couple of times.  Maybe 3 or 4 this entire year.  We do drive to see her.  Miss B lives in the same town as our parents live in, so whenever we visit them we try to see Miss B.  She is usually too busy to make time of us though. 

And it makes me sad, the way she is turning out.