Not everyone can be the academic type

So my daughter kind of struggles at school. She is very meticulous, but slow. Most of her grades are lower because she gets the 'late' markdowns. 

Anyway, she tells me this week that her physics teacher meets her at the front of the school before school starts all excited to see her. He asks her how she thinks she did on her physics test and she says "probably okay". He proceeds to tell her that she made a "GREAT grade". She made a 105 on her physics test. Apparently, he was much more excited than she was about it.

I still haven't ordered her senior pictures. I will, but with holidays, all my recent car maintenance (2 cars), and cat surgery expenses.....blah. So watermarked photos for now.

Because she is a senior, we are getting all kinds of mail from colleges. Hayley told me that she's also getting Email from colleges. She said the Emails start with......"Based on your academic achievements, we'd like to invite you to apply..." So again, I'm going to win mother of the year for this....we laughed for 1/2 an hour about how they obviously didn't look at her academic achievements. 

I hope everyone is in the Xmas spirit. We did a 6 inch 'real' tree this year. Hayley said she didn't want to bother putting up a tree, decorating it, and then taking it all back down. I felt a little like Scrooge, so I did pull out the lights for the outside of the house.

So one year, I decided I wanted purple lights. The only place I could find them was online. They showed up and they look way more pink than purple. I wrapped one of my trees in  in the so-called purple lights. It looks like I have a breast cancer awareness tree in the front yard, but its lovely.