Confessions......

I never got my Young Womanhood Recognition Award!

I know...blasphemy, inconceivable, cast out to outer darkness.

I just never liked personal progress. Its not that I didn't participate, its just that I dragged my feet so much that I wore grooves into the floor. So I never completed the required projects and just resigned myself to being one of the untouchables of the lower caste of underachievers. I would watch other girls receive and wear their pendant necklaces proudly, knowing that I would never know that feeling.

Funny thing is, a few years later, after I had graduated and served a mission, I came back to my home ward for a visit, and there on the wall was a plaque honoring all the young women in the ward who had earned their Young Woman Recognition Award. To my surprise my name was engraved along with other girls who I knew had earned the honor. Now, my memory of high school is pretty bad.....but it can't be THAT bad. Oh well.

Richard also did not get his Eagle Scout Award. So there you have it. A couple of non-conformists who may or may not lead their children down their same path of destruction.