Just When You Have Them Trained

Tonight I had a social event to go to, leaving Carter at home to fend for herself. She had plans to cook dinner with a friend, which was a first. While I was enjoying myself at the party, talking to my friend Missy I got a text on my watch. Without my reading glasses on I could barley make out that it was from Carter. Worried that she had a cooking problem I asked my friend Missy to read the text off my watch.

“Shay went out to poop and had a little poop stuck on her butt…”. Missy was reading me out loud, thank goodness she is a close enough friend. “She got it on her bed. I took the zipper bedding off and put it into the wash on sanitize setting. Hope that’s OK.”
Despite the text being about my dog getting poop on her bedding I felt like a choir of angels had just sung while a rainbow appeared over a beautiful sunset. My child had not only let the dog out, but she noticed that she brought poop inside, and wiped it on her bed and she cleaned it up all without being asked. What planet am I on? I can go ahead and die now, my job as a Mother is done.  
This is one shining moment in mother world. She also paid close attention in “new washer usage training” and was able to pick the appropriate setting for the cleaning situation.  
Then it hit me. She is actually a very useful member of the household. For a while now she has been good at going to the grocery, or getting the oil changed in the car. Now with this washer usage for something other than her own clothes I realize I could have her doing more, but just as she has gotten fully trained I am about to lose her. So many years of teaching her how to be self sufficient and I am not going to get the benefit of her training. Who am I going to train now?