a few pre-graduation festivities
I must give fair warning that I’m feeling compelled to hustle and record all the thoughts and festivities surrounding having another child graduate, and also the end-of-the-school-year-stuff while it’s still…
Hello! and goodbye to Elle, for a little while
Hello!! We are here, alive and well (as well as you can be in the desert at 118 degrees…ha!). We have been traveling for the last few weeks and…
a college visit (to SDSU) and a college decision for Elle
So… I still haven’t written about Elle’s college decision. And she’s leaving in a matter of weeks. I’m telling this story with her permission, because it’s kind of a…
powder puff football
This year they decided to have an inaugural year for “powder puff” football at our high school. And it was a pretty fun thing to add into the schedule. …
thoughts on having another child graduating from high school
I just got a newsletter from the sixth grade reminding me that we are down to less than three weeks of school. Ok, back-up, I started this when there were…
one more Prom
Warning: this post has a lot of details that really no one but Elle and me would be interested in. But I want to remember how it felt to help…
tennis season wrap-up (part 2…doubles at state)
Let’s begin where I left off in “part 1” (back HERE)…the end of the season and on to doubles. Elle and Emma (her doubles partner) after the last season…
tennis season wrap-up (part 1)
Ok, so I’m going to have to do this whole tennis season wrap-up dealio in two sections because there are too many thoughts and heart-strings attached. I can’t possibly wrap…
Elle’s senior pictures
Yesterday Elle texted me this picture right in the middle of the day with a bunch of little cry-face emoticons. Which made me have to text some back because…