the last semester of near normalcy

Tomorrow will start Buster’s last semester of homeschooling, Doodle’s last semester of American high school, and my last semester of the life I’ve come to know.  Wow.  As much as I’d like to really enjoy every moment of it, there’s so much to do.  I have to make sure that I have Buster prepared for high school next year, have him take the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, and learn algebra well enough to pass the school’s test so he can get credit for it.  This semester might run into the summer for him…..  Doodles will have to finish up 2 AP classes and test for them, take senior English including a senior project even though she’s a junior, take a couple of SAT II subject tests, take the ACT, make a list of colleges she’s interested in and start visiting them, get to know the senior counselor at the high school so she will be able to do recs for her, sign up for dual enrollment calculus to take over the summer, and learn more Spanish.  It’s really hard to cram junior and senior year of high school into 1 year.  I don’t even want to think about what this summer will be like.

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