Helaina is on break from her online studies. They'll be resuming soon enough though, starting with another week spent in Boston. Before that happens, she’s on the day shift at work and she managed to have her tag sale last weekend. She didn't make huge bucks but she got a little something for all her efforts. More importantly, she was able to get rid of bunch of stuff. Now we only need to plan on renting four dumpsters instead of five. That might make a dent in the porch at least.
Rachael, as mentioned earlier, is in The Big City. It’s been a tough adjustment- there’s been the constant worry about having enough money, having enough to eat, getting enough sleep and of course, there's always the safety concern. All of this has added up to many, many restless nights- for me that is, not her. She’s doing fine. She’s still looking for a decent job but things are moving forward.
Jake has been working his summer job at the semi-local university where he faces daily challenges such as making sure all the dorm room outlets work. He’s also been plugging away towards getting ready for college in the early fall or late summer or… something like that. Finding housing is still on the plate but the more immediate concern has been shopping for a used car. We’ll be looking again today. I know he'll be needing one for when he moves, but I wonder if this has anything to do with having a girlfriend that lives a hundred mile away. Probably not.
Sam is now officially on summer break. This year, instead of going to the same summer program, he’s going to be working with a “career coach” a couple of times a week, for a couple of hours at a time. This will be in addition to his ongoing summer speech therapy. We’ll be practicing how to walk into town on his own. This is as nerve wracking to me as the idea of Rachael living in The Big City.
Exciting? You bet! If you’re lucky, there may be more updates as the summer progresses. In the mean time, I will continue to mentally run through the various nightmare scenarios for each of one my kids.
Jake has been working his summer job at the semi-local university where he faces daily challenges such as making sure all the dorm room outlets work. He’s also been plugging away towards getting ready for college in the early fall or late summer or… something like that. Finding housing is still on the plate but the more immediate concern has been shopping for a used car. We’ll be looking again today. I know he'll be needing one for when he moves, but I wonder if this has anything to do with having a girlfriend that lives a hundred mile away. Probably not.
Sam is now officially on summer break. This year, instead of going to the same summer program, he’s going to be working with a “career coach” a couple of times a week, for a couple of hours at a time. This will be in addition to his ongoing summer speech therapy. We’ll be practicing how to walk into town on his own. This is as nerve wracking to me as the idea of Rachael living in The Big City.
Exciting? You bet! If you’re lucky, there may be more updates as the summer progresses. In the mean time, I will continue to mentally run through the various nightmare scenarios for each of one my kids.
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