Our snowball bush...these are so daintily pretty and smell so lovely...I look forward to them each year with great anticipation! (Part of the area where we need to rip out things...see why I can't let go????)
Am subbing at Guerin today...Math...(I hear you moaning, Meg, as I know how you love Math), but am home for the lunch period and a prep period (and to let the dogs run in the yard a bit), so thought I would blog a little here to count for today as after school until way late I will be working at the swim meet.
Matt has gotten letters from colleges before about their swimming programs, but yesterday he got a fancy one from YALE! Good golly...Matt is only a freshman and we didn't think we would see anything like this for a couple years yet. Basically the letter says, along these lines, "Congratulations on your swimming accomplishments. NCAA rules prohibit us from sending you any information about Yale University and the Bulldogs Swimming and Diving program until you are a junior. However, we are permitted to invite you to join our mailing list, joining other students who contact us early and express interest in learning more about Yale University. If you are interested, please complete the enclosed form and return it to us. We regret the less than totally personal nature of this letter, but it is our best way of contacting you at this point....." Now, how fun is this? Matt was just thrilled. It goes up on the Bulletin Board as inspiration...an Ivy League college sending Matt an "are interested" letter as a freshman with no solicitation on his part whatsoever. Maybe this swimming thing is a good deal after all. He swims the 400 Freestyle tonight...he hasn't entered in that for almost a year, so we should see a good cut in time, always inspiring any way you can get it.
Back to Guerin...catch you later.