Colleen27
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- Joined
- Mar 31, 2007
Welp, graduation finally made me cry... DD's didn't do it, as proud as I am of her, but her two BFFs both graduated yesterday from our community's alternative high school and their graduation had me crying enough that taking good pictures was tough at times. One of the girls has been a part of our lives since she and DD were both 4 years old, when we were neighbors; she calls us Mom & Dad and spent holidays with us at my inlaws' house when her mom had to work. The other has "only" been around since the girls were freshmen, but she and DD were practically sisters at first sight. They've both had tough roads - the former has a wonderful mother but no father in the picture, and moved around a lot as her mom tried to find affordable housing and steady income; the latter lost her mom at 12 and lived until 17 with an abusive father who pulled her out of the school DD attended after a teacher contacted CPS on her behalf, then ran away from home and ended up staying with a good friend of mine (who her dad didn't know) for her last year. Both went to three different high schools over their four years, and if you'd asked me a year or two ago, I wouldn't have said with any confidence that either of them would graduate. Not only did they both make it, one of them received the school's top academic award and delivered the commencement address!
Softball season is still dragging on... today's drama was having to be on a bus to play half of a make-up playoff game that was interrupted by severe thunderstorms on Saturday (one inning before it would have been an official game, thanks to a rain delay of the game before ours), while simultaneously waiting for a decision on the LLC she applied to and trying to sort out an error in her placement test scores not transferring over to the registration system. But it is all sorted now. She was accepted to the LLC, which we've been told is a really good reference to have for next year when she plans to apply to be an RA, she got a hold of someone who could transfer her scores manually, and she got the classes she needs for fall. Getting into the LLC also means we finally know which dorm she'll be in and that she'll have a double room, so I'm sure she'll be jumping into the Pinterest décor planning with both feet when she gets home.
Softball season is still dragging on... today's drama was having to be on a bus to play half of a make-up playoff game that was interrupted by severe thunderstorms on Saturday (one inning before it would have been an official game, thanks to a rain delay of the game before ours), while simultaneously waiting for a decision on the LLC she applied to and trying to sort out an error in her placement test scores not transferring over to the registration system. But it is all sorted now. She was accepted to the LLC, which we've been told is a really good reference to have for next year when she plans to apply to be an RA, she got a hold of someone who could transfer her scores manually, and she got the classes she needs for fall. Getting into the LLC also means we finally know which dorm she'll be in and that she'll have a double room, so I'm sure she'll be jumping into the Pinterest décor planning with both feet when she gets home.