We’re about to begin a big week for both of our girls! My youngest daughter is leaving early Tuesday morning for her school trip to Quebec, Ottawa and Montreal. She’s feeling both excited and nervous. She’s a pretty anxious flyer. The seat order on the plane is being decided by the teachers, but she’s really hoping to sit beside one of her friends. It would make her more comfortable which will help with the anxiety. Also, the very first evening they are going on a guided “haunted” walk. She gets freaked out fairly easily. The Harry Potter books scared her (she couldn’t even finish the first one!) Her friends were sending creepy chain texts saying things like “if you don’t forward this letter to at least 10 people, the ghost of a murdered child will appear in your bedroom at 3:00 in the morning and haunt you and your family for the rest of your days.” She couldn’t sleep she was so scared. My poor hubby slept on the couch for about a week! (I actually ended up contacting many of the parents to ask them to have their kids remove my daughter from the group text list, if their kids were going to be sending any of those types of texts.) Anyway, my point is, she really scares easily and on their very first night away from home, they are going on a haunted walk!! Dumb dumb dumb… All of the tours are mandatory, which I do absolutely understand, but I’ve emailed the teacher to let them know she’s truly very scared, so they don’t get mad at her if she has her headphones on and is listening to music during he tour (as this is what I told her to do.) I’m sure she’ll have a great time. I am so glad that she has the opportunity to go on this trip! 

This Thursday evening is our oldest daughter’s graduation ceremony. Then the grad reception is on Friday. I’m not sure I’ve actually wrapped my head or my heart around that yet..the idea that my baby is graduating!! How can this be?? My little girl is finished high school and will turn 18 this summer!! Seriously!! I think I’m in denial. Also, I don’t feel like I’m old enough to have a child graduating from high school. Age is such a strange thing. I don’t feel that “old”, on the inside, if you know what I mean. I realize that it’s been a long time since my high school days, but sometimes it doesn’t actually feel that way. Or maybe I just really am in denial and don’t want to let go. I don’t know, time is so strange…

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Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!