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Josie celebrated another birthday. It was a small, family gathering

familiar birthday-fare for our family. Our family life has a definite rhythm, an ebb and flow and a sense of sameness to our days. I love sameness. I love predictability. But all things change...

My daughter is spreading her wings.

She has applied to a performing arts high school. I am equal parts proud, excited, terrified and cautious. I worry, what if she has to eat alone at lunch? What if she struggles with Math or a foreign language? We were going to have her take sign language as a foreign language- because I kind of know innately what she will do well with and what she will stumble with. (they only offer French and Spanish at this school) *what if- she doesn't get accepted into the school?

she went with Demi and I to the open house at the performing arts high school. You see, it was actually Demi who wanted to spread his wings and fly away, first. So, we went to the open house and Josie tagged along because she is interested in graphic media arts...but being in school all day, not so much...

The very first class we visited, which was creative writing, (and which I immediately decided I wanted to go to school there for...) a girl sat in front of us, wearing a fedora. -which you don't usually see on a teenage girl.

Josie wears a fedora.

I knew immediately that this was the place for Josie. Her creative-nerdiness would be okay here. Homeschool world is nerd-world...but that's okay because nerds employ everyone.... {nerd power!}