MaxiMe turns 18 tomorrow. I cannot
Well, here it is. Six months after I started this post. I never even came back to finish my original thought, so evidently I truly could not...
Last Friday night MaxiMe received his High School diploma. He’s headed to the same Uni where I finished up a long and glorious (or was is rambling and disjointed) BS degree about a millionty years ago. I’m excited and nervous and jealous as he sets out on this new adventure. With the Covid virus still raging, things are fluid and MaxiMe is having to find a level of flexibility that I would have never connected to at 18 years old.
He’s a great son. He’s a great human. He’s brilliant and hilarious. He’s kind and caring. He’s a people pleaser and an animal lover. I happen to think he’s handsome and a lot like me, too.
My main hope right now is that people treat him as well as he treats them. If so, the world is going to be OK.
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Sunday, January 5, 2020
It’s been another few minutes
So, you were getting married to your best girl the other day, while finishing grad school and raising two high schoolers. Then, a couple of years went by without writing any of it down.
The highlights:
TheFamily is doing terrific.
MaxiMe graduates from high school in a few months. College is in the plan. WHERE is still to be decided. Dad is hoping for less than an hour away :)
The Artist now lives most of the time here, with Galaxy Girl and me. We changed the custody plan a while back and our extra time together is awesome. Still have a couple of years of high school before I need to start pushing nearby colleges on The Artist.
Galaxy Girl has grown into the role of stepMOM in a way that is astounding and at the same time, not very surprising. Caring for people is what we do around here. She was taking care of her tribe well before meeting any of us. We are just lucky that we get the lioness’ share of her efforts nowadays.
I finished grad school. I passed all of the certification tests. I’m licensed as a public school administrator but still working as a Special Education teacher until the right spot opens up in campus administration. Hoping that I’ll be working as a campus Assistant Principal in the next couple of years.
Until then, I’m preparing for a return to the campus where I did most of my years as a teacher. I’m currently teaching at a high school, but I’ll be back on a middle school campus soon. I didn’t completely realize how important my “home” campus was to me until I left there over the summer. An opportunity to return opened up, and I’ll be back there soon.
And now for the noteworthy lowlights:
Yeah, I got nothin’ worth mentioning.
Yep. I am a lucky Dad. Can confirm.
The highlights:
TheFamily is doing terrific.
MaxiMe graduates from high school in a few months. College is in the plan. WHERE is still to be decided. Dad is hoping for less than an hour away :)
The Artist now lives most of the time here, with Galaxy Girl and me. We changed the custody plan a while back and our extra time together is awesome. Still have a couple of years of high school before I need to start pushing nearby colleges on The Artist.
Galaxy Girl has grown into the role of stepMOM in a way that is astounding and at the same time, not very surprising. Caring for people is what we do around here. She was taking care of her tribe well before meeting any of us. We are just lucky that we get the lioness’ share of her efforts nowadays.
I finished grad school. I passed all of the certification tests. I’m licensed as a public school administrator but still working as a Special Education teacher until the right spot opens up in campus administration. Hoping that I’ll be working as a campus Assistant Principal in the next couple of years.
Until then, I’m preparing for a return to the campus where I did most of my years as a teacher. I’m currently teaching at a high school, but I’ll be back on a middle school campus soon. I didn’t completely realize how important my “home” campus was to me until I left there over the summer. An opportunity to return opened up, and I’ll be back there soon.
And now for the noteworthy lowlights:
Yeah, I got nothin’ worth mentioning.
Yep. I am a lucky Dad. Can confirm.
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