Looks like the boys will be going to new schools in the Fall. Our school didn’t give us enough financial assistance this year as apparently we make too much money. Now before we all get excited, we really don’t make too much money, we just show too many assets on our tax return. You see, I get a K1 that inflates our income showing my share of the profits from our Company. What it doesn’t show is that those funds or profits, never make their way to our bank account. They are all just left in the Company to cover previous years losses. Anyhow, we cannot pay $4000 a month for the boys to go to school which is about what it’d be. So we’re now looking at our options.
Jag will probably go to Battle Mountain where he plays baseball now. Good news is they have AP (Advanced Placement) classes where he actually gets college credits. A friend of ours went to Baylor starting as a sophomore after going there. Ty will either go to a public K through 8 school or we might get him into Vail Christian Academy for 1 year before he too would go to Battle Mountain. Ty in high school in one year seems like a shocker. Both kids were bummed as you’d imagine, but to their credit, understand and don’t want us to spend more than we can afford. Jag even said Ty could continue to go to our current school and Ty offered up the same but we’re just going to move them both. I told Lori, who was up most of the night worrying about it, to look at it as if Ty is going from elementary school to middle school and Jag from middle school to high school. The valley is small enough that they’ll still see their friends and our boys, being who they are, will make new friends. Of course there’s more drugs and bad stuff at larger schools but there’s drugs at our current school, just a higher caliber as Lori says, ha.
So that was the drama for the day. Jag skipped baseball practice and won’t get to play tonight as there’s a rule that if you miss practice the day before the game, you can’t play. We didn’t know that, but school was a big enough subject that we needed to talk about as a family.
Lori’s neck is killing her but so far, no bad headache. Her car is in Denver getting fixed and they gave me a Cadillac Escalade as a loaner, nice little car. I hope her car is fixed today.
I guess there’s another round of snow coming on Friday. Our 17th Anniversary is this Saturday, and we’ll be in Denver. There’s a camp in Michigan this summer that’d be really good for Ty. His friend Warner, who moved to Virginia, is going again this year. It’s July 10th to August 6th. The kids are gone 27 days and can’t take cell phones and can’t call home! For half the time, they are on a canoe trip camping up in Canada. Talk about a trip that’ll make you grow up, wow. I guess last year, Warner’s parents said it was like he left a little kid and came back a young man. Apparently not being able to call was much harder on Warner’s mom than Warner. The trick is to start sending daily letters two weeks before camp starts so they get a letter every day. If we can make it happen, we’ll be asking you all to write letters. We’re going to try to swing it now that we won’t be paying for school but it’s $5000! Apparently from all the reviews though, it’s well worth it and it’d be really good for Ty. We think it’d really help his confidence for going to a new school. So any and all birthday, Christmas, Anniversary or any other presents should be in cash for Camp Kooch-i-ching! Click on this link or paste in your browser to see more,
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Have a good day, God Bless.