Moving On

DA and DB are seniors! Really? Can that be true? Yup, they are. The last year of public school. I'm not quite sure how it happened. It seems like yesterday they were sitting in the Live Oak Elementary library while I volunteered, telling teachers that they weren't getting to start kindergarten the next year because their mommy wanted to keep them home one more year. It was my evil scheme to get to keep them with me a little longer. (And I didn't want them three years younger than their brother, but only two years behind him in school.) Anyway, that year that I managed to finagle so long ago will be up before I know it. Already we've had the last first day of school, the last performance at the Curtain Theatre, the last swim meet, the last time to order yearbooks, the last football games, the last...

We've had some firsts, too. Just last week DA had her first college auditions in Plano. Her original audition (90 seconds to impress) was about 4:30. I knew that callbacks would be about an hour after that, but three hours later she still wasn't out. I took that to be a good sign - that schools wanted to talk to her. And I was right! She got an offer (and a scholarship) from a school in Manhattan for their BFA program... AND a scholarship to go along with it. Now, a scholarship at a school that costs as much as a private liberal arts school in Manhattan doesn't go very far, but she'll find the rest of the money. I have no doubt. She's determined to get to New York!

That same night DB called me to ask if she could use my debit card to apply for school. One of the schools was Texas State. It was a good investment! This week she got a letter from them saying they would like to offer her a place at Texas State and give her a scholarship - equal to the one that Marymount Manhattan offered to DA. Only at an in-state public institution the money goes much further. Now, unfortunately, it's probably not the school she'll go to, but it's great to know that the scholarships are out there and my amazing daughters can get them.

I'm so proud of them both.