Sweet 16

Well, M picked up some salmon for today's meal, since it's Good Friday, we remembered we should have fish today.

L received this fancy sweet 16 birthday invitation in the mail, at a fancy Golf and Country club. It's a surprise party for a schoolffriend and they are going all out. It's a black and white semi-formal dinner dance and even included an admission card. So now we have to go find a new dress. Tomorrow she has a 2 hour tennis lesson at midday then a 3 hour tennis tournament from 7 to 10pm. Maybe we can dress shop in the morning (Sears has a good sale this week). She's also fighting a cold.

K and I worked on calculating sales tax and discounts and restaurant tips yesterday. He finds this stuff difficult. Fractions, decimals aren't a problem. He was disappointed when a friend cancelled a birthday party, but that gave us extra review time. I'm so focussed on his schoolwork that social obligations take a back seat. I had wanted to have some friends over this weekend, but my mind just can't handle that kind of stuff right now. M thinks it will be ok for us to just have a quick dinner out on Sunday with his mother. I feel like life is 'on hold' for the next few months, until K has his exams in mid-June. It doesn't help that the kids have their 13th and 16th birthdays in April. Can't decide what to do about their parties. I'd like to do them in the summer.



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