May Overview

At the beginning of the month, Emily had to go take her SATs. Caitlyn went with the youth early in the morning to the Temple.

It only took a couple of weeks or so to get her results back. She did pretty good. She got 1350. Hopefully that will help her get into college.

For Mother's Day, the family seemed to stick with an "iron" theme as I got a waffle iron and an actual iron for clothes. I had mine since high school and it finally died. It was either made fairly well or it just proves that I didn't use mine that often over the years!

We went to visit with my mom for Mother's Day. We did our usual potluck but not a picnic since the weather has still been cool and wet. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures hardly at all this past month.

Beyond that, the kids spent most of their time finishing their school projects and getting ready for finals. The school year ends at the end of the month.

Luckily, Emily was able to pick up some of her grades at the last minute. She ended up with not great, but decent grades. Caitlyn was stressed out about her final grades. She was getting straight A's up until finals and it got a little dicey until the teachers got all the assignments put in. She ended up with straight A's for her fourth quarter grades but still had one B+ for her overall last semester. I don't know if she realizes it yet. I don't really want to be the one to tell her. She will be so disappointed.

Christian is still doing great in school. He passed the first part of his TPAs and is in the middle of two master's classes. He also found out that he will not be teaching Chemistry after all at his new school in the fall but will be teaching Physics instead...which is fine except that he spent a good deal of time preparing to teach Chemistry already.

Emily was supposed to be working on getting her driver's license, but she had found out that not only does she have to take a useless online class for it, but also has to pay some instructor for at least 6 hours of behind the wheel instruction. We kept going back and forth on the decision on whether to bother with that or not since it costs a great deal of money. I think we finally decided to just wait until she is 17 and a half so that we don't need to have her do any of that.