The other night my 17 year old son spent a couple of hours looking online for college scholarships. Getting a scholarship is difficult. People are not willing to just give you $10,000–they want you to have accomplished something. They expect you to have leadership experience or good grades. Or, leadership experience and good grades. Then, there are some scholarships where you have to make a movie, write an essay, or, gasp, create an art project.
I can’t believe my son is even applying for college. Mostly because it seems like yesterday that he looked like this:
He was so small that when we used to travel, we would put him in a suitcase.
He really was that small, but we never traveled with him in the suitcase. That would be silly.
I do have a plan to keep him home, though. I’m sending this picture along with his college application:
That should get him placement at a prestigious university.
And while my 17 year old was looking at scholarships, I was helping my 8 year old with her book report. She had to make a diorama from the book Meet Felicity, An American Girl. She was planning on using clay, at first. But this is how the horse, Penny, turned out:
So, she used cutouts instead. This one will probably get a much better grade:
We’re going to save it for when she’s applying for college scholarships. I’ll bet it’s worth $10,000, at least.
$20,000 if we throw in the clay horse.
Your daughter’s sculpting abilities are overwhelmingly amazing. And anyone who put stickers on their eyeballs deserves a degree from Harvard.
Bandaid Man can do physics? Impressive. I guess there’s hope for Daytona Jones after all.
I really can’t believe you have one old enough to graduate. I swear it was just yesterday we were all playing Rook. I guess it really has been that long because I bought Rook cards to teach my kids and I couldn’t remember how to play!
Have a great weekend!