Homestretch
We've reached the homestretch!! The homestretch of what, you ask? High school for B. We have an actual chain made of construction paper in the living room, color coded by week. Yeah, old school but everyone in the family needed a visual representation of how close we were getting. This graduation is going to be a big deal to a different degree than any previous graduations in our family because everyone from the oldest to the youngest kid (plus Terence and I) has been instrumental in getting this far. It takes a village sometimes, and the process of getting B through the last four years never would have happened without the efforts of the entire family (B most of all, of course). Sometimes I thought she would never make it. (Full disclosure, I still worry, even though she has less than three weeks to go.) Every morning we're never quite sure if she will make it through the day. But between working with her school counselor, people being willing to drive at the last second if s
