Colleen27
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It is incredible how the time is flying by. It is hard to believe our kids are all doing housing and class selection for their last year of school!
We got to see DD last month for a bit, though I wish it had been under better circumstances. She flew home to chaperone DD13's winter camp and we'd added on a few days to the trip so she could spend some time with my mom, because DD was worried Grandma wouldn't make it until the end of the school year after her cancer diagnosis last fall. Instead, we used one of those days for my mother's funeral mass because she passed at the end of January, just a couple weeks after DD went back to campus for the semester. My mom wanted to be cremated and made me promise when she got the diagnosis that I wouldn't make DD come home from school/miss class for a funeral, so it ended up being a really hectic week and not much of a break for her, though she did enjoy being back at camp with the younger kids.
In happier news, with covid waning again DD did get her approval to study abroad over the summer so she's headed to Ireland in mid-June for the summer semester. And of course, we're taking on a family trip ahead of her program start to spend a few days at Disneyland Paris and sightseeing in Paris and London. So that'll be a fun way to spend her last summer before she has to join the real world. And we're meeting up in Vegas this weekend to head out into the desert for spring break, which should be a nice, peaceful escape from everything.
We got to see DD last month for a bit, though I wish it had been under better circumstances. She flew home to chaperone DD13's winter camp and we'd added on a few days to the trip so she could spend some time with my mom, because DD was worried Grandma wouldn't make it until the end of the school year after her cancer diagnosis last fall. Instead, we used one of those days for my mother's funeral mass because she passed at the end of January, just a couple weeks after DD went back to campus for the semester. My mom wanted to be cremated and made me promise when she got the diagnosis that I wouldn't make DD come home from school/miss class for a funeral, so it ended up being a really hectic week and not much of a break for her, though she did enjoy being back at camp with the younger kids.
In happier news, with covid waning again DD did get her approval to study abroad over the summer so she's headed to Ireland in mid-June for the summer semester. And of course, we're taking on a family trip ahead of her program start to spend a few days at Disneyland Paris and sightseeing in Paris and London. So that'll be a fun way to spend her last summer before she has to join the real world. And we're meeting up in Vegas this weekend to head out into the desert for spring break, which should be a nice, peaceful escape from everything.