The young one's graduation announcements arrived in the post today...a beautiful, understated trifold on ivory parchment with the Northview coat of arms embossed in gold and black on the front, a sketch of the NV campus under the outside flap and all the details about the graduation ceremony on the inside, elegantly printed in gold script. Things are happening fast and furious for the young one now, with prom and graduation approaching, and all the grants and scholarships being aligned for his first year at UT. His exceptional academic career at NV has garnered him recognition on several fronts at UT and his scholarship funding is generous (for which we are extremely grateful) He has also qualified for several student loans, which were enumerated in his financial aid disclosure. We will be finalizing our decisions on funding over the weekend and sending in all the forms to assure that when Fall 2007 arrives, funding will be a non issue, and his only responsibility will be to keep those grades up.In totally unrelated activities, the unlimited pick up (or as many (including the firstborn) consider it, the "city wide garage sale") takes place next week. The house is already spewing copious amounts of excess stuff, making for great "shopping" for all the folks who cruise the neighborhoods every night, scanning the discard piles under the glow of the street lamps and headlights. We look forward to civilizing the house a great deal, and clearing out much of the ignored and unused items which have been taking up space. If all works out well, we will be back to using the three season room on the back of the house again for recreation, rather than storage...a very pleasant thought as the warm weather finally arrives. Between house cleaning and yard work, it should be a very energetic weekend....and beautiful weather projected the whole time to make it enjoyable.
Hope whatever you do, you enjoy warm sun and blue skies...and much love...till later...
v
