When our girls were in Junior High and High School, I was the cool parent. I do not know why their friends thought Dale and I were the cool parents. We had more rules in our house then their friends’ parents but we were cool in their eyes. When Rebecca had her 16^th birthday, her friends wanted to know where I bought some of my clothing. A couple weeks ago I decided to take James out for breakfast. We had to go to the bank and cash the birthday check he got from his grandparents. While we were at the bank I did the unthinkable, I talked to him in front of someone from his class at school. When we got to Mc Donald I was told that his friends did not know that I was even alive. I was a little upset because I had always been the cool mom. Which did not make any sense, because everyone has a mom who gave birth to him or her.  I just did not understand why I was not cool in my son’s eyes. That is life, my job as a mother is not to be cool, but to raise our children in the ways of the Lord.