WITH TEARS, I JOYFULLY SHARE...

There I was by the roadside postal box weeping. I was less than fetching. But I didn't care!!!! Because I was crying over (drum roll for historic moment): Michael's newly-arrived and first (!) college acceptance letter. Can't share details as it's early in the process, but I post the appropriate slice from said acceptance letter below ... (I think he may be among the first ten in his class to get a college acceptance letter). You guide the children (hence the tie-tying lesson--visual metaphor and all that), and then you hope for moments like this: