17 years ago today I was lucky enough to marry my beautiful wife Lori. It was the single smartest move of my life. She’s not only a great wife, but a great mother, co-worker and friend. She’s one of those people that the World is truly better off having in it.
Today Jag will be gone most of the day for baseball while Ty, Lori and I will head down to Denver. We’re going to drop Ty at a friends while Lori and I go to Jeff and Tina’s for dinner. We’re not sure if we’re spending the night or if we’ll drive up tonight. Now that we don’t drink, we have that choice. Ha, there is another benefit!
Yesterday Jag and I went to the High School to get a list of classes, meet the counselor and the basketball coach. Three kids from baseball said hi to him in the halls but it was like going from a small town to the big city. When the bell rang, the halls filled up with hundreds of kids, and then 3 minutes later, after the second bell, they were all gone! Before that we had his teacher conferences. We confided in the teachers he probably won’t be back to VMS next year to which they were all stunned and disappointed. One teacher, who led the Hawaii trip, stood up and gave him a big hug and was starting to cry. His math teacher said there’s things we can do to stay, but I told them I think we’ve already tried all possible solutions. His super cool Mandarin teacher, just stood up and said, “you’re not leaving” to Jag, when I shared the news. All said he should be in AP (advanced placement) classes which are basically a year ahead of where most kids are. So, looks like he’ll be taking Junior level courses in English, Math, Science and Computer Technology next year. All they did for 30 minutes was rave about him and they told us he was the top student in his class. He dressed up in jeans and a nice shirt and borrowed one of my neck ties. He looked like a prep student from some movie at some east coast school. One teacher said, “I like it, dress for success”. We asked them not to say anything to anyone, meaning students, but with the school wanting to double our tuition from $22,000 to $40,000, it’s 99% we’re moving on. We’ll keep you posted of course. You never know what’ll happen as we know the teachers are all going to the administration lobbying to keep Jag there, as he’s such a credit to his class and the school. We think he’s so great, they should pay us for him to go there! Probably won’t happen though.
Time to run, have a great weekend, God Bless.
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