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School’s out for the summer
By Me | June 26, 2008
Well, I did it.
I managed to get all four of my children through another school year … although, for some of them, I had less to do with it than for others.
Gina has survived her first year of Ithaca College. Right now, she is finishing up the first session of her summer course in Anatomy and Physiology, which she has to take for her major. Her lab practical was Wednesday and she is feeling quite confident about it. Her last test is tomorrow and then she has a week off before second session starts.
Notwithstanding that caveat, she successfully navigated freshman year and came out of it older, wiser and with a 3.0 average. Not too shabby.
David graduated from high school and will now embark on some form of job search. He really wants to work with/for his dad, doing computer reconditioning and repair. I expect he’ll get some of that sort of work but not enough to constitute full time employment. That would be fine with him, ultimately lazy individual that he is. I’d rather he got a real job, even if he isn’t going to be moving out anytime soon.
Kimmie finished middle school with distinction. At the beginning of the school year, I formed a goal for her. I wanted her to get her grades up. She did a magnificent job, managed to stay out of trouble for pretty much the entire school year, made honor roll during her third semester and finished with an 80 average in the fourth semester. She has come so very far … I’m proud of her.
Next year, she hits high school. Eek!
And Ricky is now finished with elementary school and ventures forth into the hitherto unexplored world of middle school. I’m hoping he has some sort of epiphany this summer because he is so very scatter-brained and more than a little dishonest in the minor matter of homework. He could do very well but lacks self-direction and self-discipline. We’re going to need to work on that.
Middle school. That’ll be an adventure.
For now, though, what all this translates into is that I no longer have to get up at 6:30 a.m. In fact, I don’t really have to do that anymore at all. Gina will be back at Ithaca in late August, David will be altogether finished with school, and Kimmie and Ricky can both get themselves up for school at this point.
In some ways, it really does get easier when they get older. Of course, in some other ways, it gets harder … but that’s a subject for another post.
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