karismar

 Happy Bealtainn everyone.  A gorgeous morning as the sun came up. It was calm and peaceful and so inspiring.

Ants have attacked the house and yard so I’m heading outside with the spray bottle filled with vinegar on a mission. What a mess they’ve created, they’re everywhere.

My guy has been putting up a gothic picket fence out front and I’ve been applying primer in a race against the rains that are due today. Yesterday I thought I was going to see a wet white mess everywhere but fortunately the rains stayed away. The garden/yards are really coming alive and new tasks are presented daily. The climbing rose outside of the bay window is really growing and needs more to climb on, more work on the newly added raised beds and pots need cleaned out. More planning is needed for where it’s all going to grow. That dirt pile mentioned earlier is still a dirt pile when it really needs to be a patio, and soon! 

On a different note…my daughter received early admissions to one of the state universities here and had accepted. Well, she’s been feeling like a change and so she applied to a school back east last week and Saturday morning received not only acceptance but a $32,000 scholarship!!  What a surprise!  She did not apply for it or expect it. The letters came while she was at work so I called her and told her something had come for her. She asked me to read them and as I began reading I started to cry…..I was so moved by what they wrote and so proud of her. She has been an exceptional student, always taking the AP courses and doing as well as she could and always with such a kind heart. Then when I opened the second letter noting the scholarship, I could barely talk.  I was overcome with so much emotion. Well, now she is struggling with where to go….even with the acceptance and scholarship the price of tuition is astounding and she will be so far away…..3,000+ miles away

Growing up is not always easy or enjoyable, sometimes it’s full of choices to make and I think the key is to not look at them as right or wrong choices but simply "choices" for now in your life. One will lead you over here or there and so begins the journey……and after all, that’s what it’s all about, the journey.  These were my words I gave to her and I hope they’ll serve her well.