She’s All Grown Up

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, the 16th was Emily’s 18th birthday. How did that happen? She wanted a big cookie instead of a cake. Her main present was a new laptop which she will be taking to college in the fall. Guess what her favorite color is?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The day started out different. Early in the morning we had a small herd of deer go through the backyard. There are 3 in this photo. We saw at least 6.

We finally got snow. All day they had been predicting it. It started late morning and went into the night. It was a fairly heavy, wet, snow and unfortunately we lost power during a movie we rented for Em’s birthday. We were able to finish it the next day. These are the photos I took yesterday morning (the 17th). They don’t do  the beauty justice. It really was like something out of a painting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To the left represents Emily’s future (and ours). Her acceptance to Champlain College came on her birthday. We had received her acceptance to MCLA the middle of December.

 

Unfortunately the financial package Champlain offered was very unimpressive. We are weighing all of our options as is Emily. She is leaning towards MCLA for a number of reasons. I have asked her to make her decision not based on finances. Champlain is more than twice the cost of MCLA so in the end I think we will all be doing the practical thing as starting life with over 120k in debt makes little sense. I’ll keep you posted. We have until May to decide about MCLA and March 15th is the deadline for Champlain. Her major is creative writing.