I spent a lovely day knitting with Peggy and Ricki. It has been far too long since our schedules have allowed all of us to be in the same place at the same time. We had some good show and tell – Peggy has been churning out the projects with her latest being some fabulous felted bags. I will have to give them a try one of these days. Ricki was busy avoiding working on her Rapunzel and frogging a sweater she knit for her sister. This sweater has never been quite right and Ricki took the wonder winder to it. I made some good progress on my Hayden Hat and am up to the decreases.
I have failed to do any bragging about my children — I do have children, not just dogs! Today’s horn tooting concerns Daughter #1. She applied to eight colleges and has already been accepted to three of them! The three she has heard from have rolling admissions – she won’t hear from the others until the spring. It has been very exciting getting those envelopes in the mail and has turned the nebulous thought of her going off next year into a concrete idea. This is really going to happen. egads! How old am I anyway??!!
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Congrats on DD#1’s great news. It should take some of the pressure off. Hope she gets into the school of her dreams.
Yesterday I played evil mom and enlisted the aid of the head of the music department in lighting a fire under DS2. He is simply NOT taking my advice and his main mentor’s advice on ratcheting up his keyboard skills to prep for auditions next year. He respects their musical opinion more than mine, so I’m counting on her to make him WAKE UP and sign up for piano lessons again.
Congrats to your daughter and good luck with decision-making! It’s a big change, having a daughter in college (next year I’ll have two!), but also very, very interesting. My, how they blossom. Katie is going to Minneapolis next weekend for appt and informal portfolio review at one of three art schools she’s applying to next year. Ali will be going close to (and living at) home. Maddy, a freshman next year, told me last week that she’d like to go to college in England (because she likes how they “talk there”), but has learned a lesson from her big sister and said that she won’t go that far right away because she’d be “homesick to death.”
way to go numero uno! cant wait for details!
I’m looking into that same mirror my friend. Daughter #1 is heading for college next year and is 3 for 3 with college acceptances so far. I am so proud of her! She is making such wonderful choices of schools. The hard part comes with letting her actually go in August. How will I EVER be able to do that? She’s so ready…but am I?