Strong Willed, Grows At It's Own Pace, Part One

Mary Lou Stratton the eldest Daughter of a highly respected businessman and her Mother who by all accounts from everybody in the community was the very shining example of just what the perfect housewife,homemaker should always look up too and strive to become. Well, Mary Lou was a very independent and creative minded person and had decided long ago as a small child she wanted none of this and her family and children would be raised very much differently. Also, the elder sister of ten younger siblings, she just knew in all her soul with all of these years assisting at home with care for all these children. She could handle her own family now, with some levels of wisdom,love,and guidance. She found a man that thought very much the same ways as herself about all of these views, and they were married and had three children. They settled on a hippie, naturalist,commune out in a desert country with a dozen other families. Her parents hated this! So, of course she loved it! Wanting her children to have less common, and even conforming names, than her own. She named her three Daughters Nellie Piper, Carrie Sunshine, and Sara Star. She soon learned that she did not share all the communes views, and divorced. To become an even more independent and creative Mother on her own. She thrived! Learning and becoming every bit the businessman as her Father. Bought a very nice home for her and her girls. Mary Lou, began to notice something quite interesting about her girls. Nellie Piper the eldest always was very interested it seemed to do just the opposites of what her Mother wanted for her to do, while her sisters Carrie Sunshine and Sara Star were always more than happy to do whatever to make there Mother happy and proud. Nellie Piper seemed to live in her own little world most of the time and more than happy to do so. This concerned Mary Lou a bit at first, until she realized the other two girls had singled her out, and bullied her to the point that Nellie Piper no longer wanted hardly a thing to do with her little sisters at all. Mary Lou could hardly blame her, and seeing Nellie Piper making plenty of friends and bringing them over. She thought things best left the way they were, for now. At times Mary Lou's super ultra conservative parents would drop by for visits with there beloved Grand Daughters. They always seemed overly concerned with poor little Nellie Piper, as they would always refer to her. They said, "with her willfulness she will be an old maid, alone, with a house full of cats, and no children of her own to love her." Well, being at the time Nellie Piper was just twelve years of age, this enraged Mary Lou who called her parents, " overly judgmental, having to beat out the Jones's sort of high up on there horses snobs! Then kicked them out of there house. They didn't see much of Grandma and Grandpa after this, unless the children requested to go over there and they were not aloud to stay long. Mary Lou said, "They will just fill all your heads full of unpractical and almost impossible things to be or become in your lives. To live the right way, you had to be who you had to be, not what others expected or forced upon you to be. When Nellie Pipers Mother talked this way it scared her to her core, she had no clue who she wanted to be. She just wanted to be allowed to be herself that was hard enough! The thought of becoming something else even more to her yes, it was absolutely unpractical and almost impossible to her. So, her Mothers words rang true for her and she did not want to live just like her Grandparents or anybody else for that matter.