I adore the sound of the vacations some of you are planning. I will be living vicariously through you!
Our plans for the extra money include paying off debt, figuring out if we can do something about a car for S, maybe buying a small condo near the school, and / or helping S save for med school.
If we’re super lucky, we might have enough to put in a back patio behind our house. There’s already a small cement pad, but it’s less than half the size of what we’re allowed to have. Climate-wise, this would be like adding an entire room to the house, and people here entertain on their patios all the time.
We have a grill and a dining table that just barely fit. If we can expand the patio, there’s enough room for a built-in grill area, possibly with a sink and ice bin for drinks. We’d also be able to have a dining table plus a separate conversation area like an outdoor living room, maybe with a firepit.
We also need to re-carpet this place. The carpet came with the house, and it’s old, somewhere between beige and paper bag brown, and dirty.
S has sent his housing contract and his roommate application. He’s got 3 finals next week and then AP calculus the following week. The younger kid has field day, teacher appreciation week. Busy!
I can’t decide if he needs the summer project or if I do. I’m going to drive him crazy this summer - no essays to write, no tests to study for, what will I nag him about?
@stemmmm nag him about earning some spending money for summer and school year, purging some of his HS only “stuff”, a deep room clean, learning all about his university (class sign ups, placement tests, intramurals, clubs, volunteer opportunities, etc), teach him some skills for adulting(address an envelope, using health insurance, making appointments, going to dentist and college physical alone, etc), getting that HCPOA and other forms signed if 18, etc. Trust me, there is still plenty to do before you drop him off at college in the fall.
S18 is done except for 3 APs this week and 2 next. Prom was Fri night. Theatre awards banquet is tomorrow. Graduation a little over 2 weeks away. Love the extra money talk. We will not being taking any extra trips this year, but will be paying down debt and generally letting out a big sigh of relief.
S18’s senior voice recital with his best friend went beautifully yesterday. Loved hearing them sing, especially their duets. So glad best friend’s dad ended up recording it (we taped some on our phones but ran out of space before some of the best songs).
I’m so far behind on this thread. Survived prom this weekend. Fun was had by all.
On the way to pick up his tux he received a phone call from a local scholarship he had applied for! We are very near full ride for his freshman year now!
This week is 1 AP test, a senior picnic at a local waterpark and then his grad party this weekend. This party has grown in size and I’m living and breathing by a notebook I carry with me everywhere to jot down things as I think of them. 8-}
Ugh! D has her biggest IB tests this week: English and History, 5 tests back to back over 3 days starting this afternoon and she is sick! A bad spring cold. It started Friday and I let her stay home hoping the extra rest and fluids of a 3 day weekend would power her through it to be feeling better today, but no, she’s miserable and she’s stressed because she barely studied over the weekend because she was feeling so awful. :-S Poor thing. I just keep reminding her to just do the best she can and not worry about it. These tests have no impact on her admission, and while a good score might net her some credit, I told her it really doesn’t make a huge impact. She’s still beating herself up over it. I just wish those germs could’ve held off for one more week! :-<
Early graduation here, too. The night before AP Calc. Not done with school until May 31, and they have final exams (yes, seniors have to take them even if they took the AP test!) for the last few days of school. Not cool, especially since the teacher strike added a couple of weeks to the school calendar, interfering with D’s (and surely other students’) summer jobs. [-( D’s HS career is not closing on a good note. I think I’m more miffed about it all than D is, though.
Oh @ShrimpBurrito that’s just CRAZY! At the very least you think they’d let the kids exempt finals if they took the AP test. The do that at our school but students have to show up for roll call in second period so the school doesn’t lose money for them not being in school :ar!
They usually do exempt kids from finals if taking the AP test, but they are doing it differently this year because of the strike. Gotta make sure the kids stay til the bitter end, no matter what. Common sense doesn’t apply here. Thankfully D won’t lose her summer job over it.
I asked D if her teachers were going to give her finals after AP (because she has two school-scheduled events during exams, GRRRR), she said that her Calc teacher already gave them the test problem, a simple derivative. I am happy to say I was able to solve it, LOL. She has a project for Econ, an oral report in Spanish and no other finals.
Am I right in thinking that APs are a week later than they usually are? The second AP week is overlapping with a lot of Senior traditions at our school too, and I don’t remember that in previous years.
