Poor Miss Audrey has been demoted to sixth grade. She THOUGHT she was going to graduate this coming spring, but her teacher has decided that Audrey needs to spend a little more time in the home school. A lot more time, actually.
The reason for Audrey's step backward has nothing to do with the fact that she does the grocery shopping every week, nor the fact that she cooks supper most nights. Not just beans and sloppy joes, mind you, but things like Garlic Alfredo Chicken Pizza; Homemade Spinach Tortillas with Roasted Red Peppers and Onions; Fresh Plum Upside Down Cake. At the rate of four or five nights a week, her repertoire of gourmet menus is quite extensive--we eat like kings.
But I digress. That has nothing at all to do with why I might want her to stick around home for another six or seven years. She's completely free to go, obviously, as soon as she finishes her high school course of study. It's just that we've decided to look into some things that weren't previously on the syllabus. Like nuclear physics. And nanocrystals, and ancient Arabic literature. DNA mutations in South American parasitic wasps. Stuff like that. A lot of stuff like that. And if she needs a little stress-busting session in the kitchen while she mulls it all over, well, that's OK too.
5 comments:
you are absolutely hilarious alice. if i had clever things to say like you do, i would blog everyday!
LOL!! Poor Aud! Or, maybe not, actually. I would much prefer staying home to cook over going to college. :-)
Aaahhh.... I see how it is! :-)
This is me, trying again, this time without quite as many typos...
This made me think about my own girls, seeing as how they are growing up so much faster than I expected they would... Chloe came to me a couple of weeks ago and announced she had a loose tooth. Both her dad and I had started to protest that she wasn't old enough yet, but then we realized - she is almost SIX years old, and quite of the age to start losing teeth! A happy and sad moment all at once.
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