Please remind me why I'm doing this...

grandscheme
Sun, 20 Sep 2015 19:29:32 +0000

I couldn’t help myself this summer. Somewhere down deep I was angry that DD would return for her second year of BS. I miss her terribly. We are very close. I was mean to her unintentionally for much of the second half of the summer and I know it was just about bracing for her to be gone again. It is a pressure cooker environment, she had blemishes all year which cleared up as soon as the school year stress was replaced by summer, her school does not give GPA boosts for honors and AP courses yet she is now among a highly competitive crowd so her grades will be lower than back when she was one of two stars in her grade at her old independent day school. Her resume won’t shine the way it would if she was coming from her own school. But. SHE chooses the challenge and the increased depth of an education. SHE understands it may not get her as far with college applications (an irony) but also knows she will ultimately be better educated and better equipped in tthe long run and that whatever colleges she does manage to get in to, she will do well.

So @twinsmama , you are not alone. Not at all.