I know what you mean about fun! DD was so burnt out from the end of the quarter last week that Friday she came home from rehearsal and headed out at 8 to visit with friends complaining about having to be in at midnight. Then Saturday she had play rehearsal and then danced for 4 hours and headed to balloon fiesta for the glow and the fireworks, and spent the night in town, coming home at 2 in the afternoon on Sunday.
Tell your DD to have a great show and break-a-leg!!!! I will!
Do you set a curfew for your seniors on weekends? If so what time is it? Do you wait up for them? No judging just looking for general input.
PS I just got off the phone with the ACT to see when DDs scores would be ready. Seems the school forgot to send something with the test and so now the test won't even be going in to be graded until this coming Wed. (it was submitted to them over 2 weeks ago) and it could take another 3-5 weeks to be scored. Come on, are you kidding me, a computer could score that test in a matter of minutes. I am usually pretty mellow but this one has my blood boiling. In any other business no one would put up with this nonsense, and then there is the part where it takes x weeks to send the scores to colleges, really have they not heard of a computer. GRRRRR
Awwww... That really stinks that your DD has to wait another several weeks for her scores!!! I would be upset, too! I don't understand why a computer can't score it unless your DD wasn't required to use a bubble sheet for her answers. Even if that was the case, there's no excuse for it to take weeks to score! Hopefully this is her last ACT test. Based on how long it will take the test to be scored, she wouldn't even know if she had to take it again before the next sign-up deadline for the December test date It makes me mad just thinking about it!
. I guess if there's a bright side to this(which is a stretch), she at least took the test early in the year and and will have her scores back before the big scholarship deadlines which are usually in December.
The weekends just fly by for them in a blur. We had fall break last week, so we all had a 4 day weekend, but where did it all go? We went to the balloon fiesta on Thursday morning for the special shapes day, but the balloons didn't fly due to high winds. They all inflated though and there was no wind at ground level.
Four hours of dance is a lot! How many hours per week does your DD dance and what kind of dance does she do? When my DD was a competitive figure skater she was on the ice 5 times a week, but not for four hours each time - usually more on the weekends and less on school nights. When her coaches moved to the rink in Santa Fe, we also had to figure in the hour commute there and back which made long days during the week. She'd try to get as much homework done in the car, but once the days got shorter (like now), the way back was too dark. By then, the girls were so pooped, that sometimes they fell asleep in the car.
As for the curfew, we also do a case-by-case basis. I don't like her driving late with drunk drivers on the road, or when I know she'll be very tired, so it's usually been 11:30pm. But on nights when there is something special going on like the Haunted Barn visit, I just tell her to keep in touch we me so I know when to expect her. The waited in line for almost 2 hours at each attraction and then they still had the hour or so drive back. This weekend there will be a party after the comedy show that usually lasts until 1:00 or 2:00am. DH, DS, and I all record the show form different camera angles in the theater and then DD and DH put together a nice video with all of the different camera angles, show credits, etc... But DD likes to take the raw footage from one of the cameras and everyone at the party watches it that night. They just can't wait for the final product (everyone gets a dvd of the show after it's all edited).
WOW, it sounds like she's been busy. DD is driving me crazy these days! She says that she wants to go away to college instead of staying local but I don't see her putting a whole lot of effort into her applications. The only one that she has completed and submitted is Baylor which she says is her 2nd choice. We had a really long talk yesterday. She's on Team for the Teen ACTS retreat in December and they meet every Sunday from 3:30-5:30. It's about a 45 minute drive from our house. She said that her ideal would be A&M for undergrad and Baylor for law school. I told her that I wanted to make sure that she was choosing the school that SHE wanted and that would be best for her and that I didn't want her choosing A&M because she thought that's what I want her to do.
What about breaking up the application tasks into smaller pieces so that the overall task is not so daunting for her? DD has done that because trying to do it all in one sitting does not work for her. Hopefully your DD will get going soon so that she gets into her first choice school.
He decided not to finish his application for Vanderbilt, which would have been a stretch anyway. He wants Texas A & M and only A & M. He had a great time at the Night-with-a-cadet program and is not interested in any other college or program. We are just waiting for him to get accepted.
He's already applied for the ROTC scholarship. I don't know how long that takes for the decision. Then he will apply for the Cadet scholarships and anything else he can think of. He said that if he gets any kind of scholarship over $1,000, the school will waive out of state tuition for people in the cadet program. I don't know if that is true or not, but that would be great.
Sounds like his mind is made up. I'll bet he will be easily accepted, too! No sense in putting in extra work for no reason. That would be awesome if he gets to pay the in-state tuition. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you on that!
Looks like we will be traveling every weekend in Feb. and one in Jan. for school auditions. Not sure how much we will travel for dance competitions I am hoping she won't do any out of town ones with 5 trips to LA and one to Denver....though there is a chance we will do the Denver trip in November if she can miss one play rehearsal. She meets with that schools rep on Friday so if she wants to apply then we will talk to the play director and see if we can go in November. 
