Missing Assignment

The other day I received this… 

 

and I thought..  

This is an amazing day!   Alysa has a missing assignment.  At first I thought that it must be an error.  Then I felt joy that this email was about Alysa.   That is a funny feeling when your child has a missing assignment.   Should I have been mad.  I was happy.  I was excited to talk to her about it when she got home.  

I asked her about it and she calmly looked at what the assignment was and said “I have that one.  I will turn it in tomorrow.”  Then she skipped away.  

I was thrilled.  Exactly the reaction that I had hoped for, but not the reaction that I expected.   I expected that she would start freaking out and worrying throughout the rest of the weekend.  I expected that she would be nervous all weekend until she could turn it in.  I expected so many reactions that just simple didn’t happen.  

We have always talked about the worst thing that could happen if something wasn’t turned in.  This was the worst that could happen and there was no anxiety about it. 

Alysa is a changed person.