I guess time is really taking its toll on me. I am still working on getting my degree and I am realizing that it will soon be time for my daughter to choose a college. I feel a little behind the times in some aspects, however, I have and have had a full range of experiences in this lifetime, for which I am very grateful. I just wish that her going on to college didn’t mean her leaving home. I know that she will want to go and as her mother I should definitely and will definitely encourage it, but she is my only daughter and although the nest will not be empty when she leaves, I will miss her desperately.
She is a very strong academic student and she is taking an SAT test prep glass and contacting the admissions departments at some of the colleges throughout the state. I know that she is interested in a school that will offer her the opportunity to some schooling online, however she wants to go to a campus so she won’t be considering a completely online university. Although she is very much a good student, she is used to being in classes and going to school. I am afraid that if she were just working on an online degree that she would get really lazy and not finish her work. She is the type who needs a teacher standing over her every now and again to see what she is doing.
With me being in school, we will need to find her some money to go away to school and we have been looking into some academic scholarship programs that may afford her some free money to use toward her schooling. I know if she does some good test preparation that she can score really high on her SAT’s and that will really get her lined up for some good scholarships. She already has made plans to go away to school with her best friend, who is a year ahead of her in school, so I am not really sure that will work out, but that is what she is talking about, and I think it is healthy for her to make plans and talk of leaving the nest.
I know she will do well, and I can’t wait for her to have the opportunity to go away and spread her wings, but I just don’t know how I will survive in the house of testosterone…alone. (LOL)
Posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 9:06 PM by Carol Ann