Parenting Plus

I started to write an entry about being the parent of an adult child. Then I realized that I don't really have anything to write! It's sort of like being a parent for the first time--you do your best and pray a lot.

The parent is no longer required, in fact is not allowed, to fix anything that may be wrong in the adult child's life. This is ok, if it needs to be fixed, the adult child will get around to doing it.

You are still allowed to encourage and love your adult child. That's it! (and pay for college if possible, food when the ac's food account is running low, etc).

I like this phase!

Not quite adult daughter did very well on her SAT. We were sitting at IHOP having our Thursday morning breakfast -- which no one showed for except dd, dh, and me. All the others were out of town. Anyway, dh has a new Kindle (see Amazon if interested). Anyway, I said hey can't you get on the internet and check her scores -- they should have posted. Well he did and we went woohoo!

Work is going well -- one of my best (most interesting) students told me that she will be coming for tutoring over the summer. She hated coming at first, but now I think she sort of likes it. She always has good stories to tell about the comings and goings of people at the local high school!

Senioritis

Both my kids are seniors now. One a senior in college and one a senior in high school! Wow! How in the world did this happen?

Daughter's history teacher asked her to take a Western History/Philosophy class next semester from that professor and another one. It is worth 6 hours and she needs to apply to get into it. Her professor said she would sign the application. Now we just need to go to the college and see if she can take that class and two more as a dual credit student.

Son came home last night. It's fun to have him home again -- even if it's only for a little while.

It is happening!

I may be turning into my mom! I was watching the weather last night and saw that there were storms in Lubbock. I actually called my son to see if he was ok! Good Grief! (Nice talking to you son).

Figured it out!

Yea for me. I think I am good at math because I just can't stand not figuring something out! So I have solved the Sam's not printing the 12x12 problem.

I remembered that Sam's prints 12x16. So after creating and saving my 12x12, I created a 12x16 and put the 12x12 at the top. I then had room to add 2 regular photos at the bottom. An hour and $3.81 (including tax) later, I had my 12x12 with the 2 pictures attached. No problem, I have a paper cutter to separate it all.

Cool!

If you are a TG, you can see the 12x12 on our photos.

Fever

Time for an update. It has been way too long since I updated, but I have come to realize that I don't have the most exciting life. April was very busy for me. It's TAKS time in Texas which means extra tutoring. I also tutored a little SAT math. Should probably have tutored my daughter more -- but was too busy tutoring others! One also wanted tutoring on the English portion -- not my specialty and if you haven't been reading novels since you were 10 then your vocabulary isn't up to par and there isn't anything I can do about it. For an improvement, try reading SAT novels available online. (just google SAT novels). Now SAT is over for now and TAKS is over for the year.

TAKS is so important to publicly educated people that they are shocked when they are told that homeschoolers/private school students don't take it. It's like the test of all tests in Texas Government Schools that they think no one can get into college or live a good life without it. My kids are proving them wrong as are many many others!

Daughter went to homeschool prom a couple weeks ago. She took a friend who is in college as her date. We had the updo done where I get my hair cut and she looked absolutely beautiful. She had a great time. Her date had fun too and told her he will go with her next year!

Son has finished his junior year at Tech and is coming home for a few days. He and his dad are off to Vegas this weekend (yes over Mothers Day) and are meeting a friend from California who we named our son after. Hope they have great time and don't do anything stupid. Maybe I'll get some special M&M's out of the trip (from the M&M store on the strip).

I got the most cool scrapbooking software -- Creative Memories Storybook Plus. I have created a 12x12 page of the prom and I've created some 5x7 cards. So cool and so fun. Unfortunately, Sam's doesn't print 12x12. Many places online print them but then I have to pay more and pay for shipping. Costco prints them for $2.99 but I don't have a Costco membership. This is not just a financial dilemma although it is that too; it is also a moral dilemma. I used to have a Costco membership in the next town over, but then Sam's opened in my town. I don't need a membership to two warehouse stores and I would much rather my tax dollars support my town instead of that other town across the bridge! I emailed Sam's and asked if they were going to add 12x12 printing to their options and they emailed me back that they forwarded it on to whoever. Ritz/Wolf charges $14.99 and that's way too much. I guess I will wait until I have 5 or 6 to print and order them online with only one shipping fee.

I'm listening to Michael Buble and that's why the title is Fever and I'm ending with

How Can you Mend a Broken Heart