This past weekend, girl child #2 graduated from High School. We also found out that her 4 year average was 92.4%. They gave her a print out of each year and her GPA each year. What an eye opener for her mother it was. The kids lived with their mother during #2's Freshman year, where she barely pulled off a 66.9% for the year. After gaining custody, and hammering into her how important grades were, she really turned it on the 2nd semester of her Sophomore year.

My daughter had also decided to accept the $80,000 scholarship to Wittenberg University, and will begin classes in the Fall. She will by studying Finance and PoliSci. Her total graduation class size was 178 students, and they collected $2.8 million in scholarship monies. What a shock that amount was!

Her boyfriend graduated as well, and will be coming with us to Ohio as soon as the house sells. I gave him a promise of shelter until he can move out on his own, and that I'd call a few people I know and get him an interview at a few places. He knows that obtaining that job is on him, and that paying for any additional education he may desire is also on him. He's a good young man, and I'm sure he will thrive there.

In addition to #2 graduating, my mother was able to come up for a visit. This in itself was a bit nerve wracking for us, as she's not been inside my home since I moved from Ohio in 2008. She was very happy with the house, and what we've been able to do with it. I've always sent her pictures of the work that's being done, and showing her what we have had to deal with, and she was expecting the worst...but was quite surprised at how it has all turned out. She said it felt like home as soon as she walked in the front door. I jokingly told her that she better like it, because her and dad had us living in a barn in the early 1980's for four and a half years.

All in all, it was a very wonderful weekend, that ended too soon

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