Seventeen!!

Birthday Girl!

Very hard to believe that our first baby is officially seventeen (and one day). As luck would have it, two of the biggest movies of the summer - Barbie and Oppenheimer - opened on her birthday. She went to see, and really enjoyed, both of them.

She had a pretty busy day with her free Starbucks birthday drink in the morning, movie #1, a fancy dinner with Chad, and then movie #2. In fact, the entire summer has been pretty busy. She enjoyed her 2-week NYT camp - she learned a lot about climate change and about what she does and doesn't want in a career. She also got to hop all over NYC, enjoying great food as she went. 

Unfortunately, the last few days of camp brought with them a nasty cold that she got to take to Ithaca, which is where I joined her for a few days. Even with the cold, I think our time in Ithaca was educational. I think she got a good sense of the campus and some of the pluses and minuses of life at Cornell. We also took a road trip down to UPenn, which was also educational. Slowly, but surely, she is figuring out what she wants in a college and what her top options are so far. 

The day before her birthday, she flew back to Minnesota for another week or so. Then, she will be back home and the number of items on the To-Do list is rather large - summer work for school, getting her room in order, returning to work, and seeing people she hasn't seen all summer are just a few of the things she has been thinking about. Classes start on August 15th, which doesn't give her much time. I have a feeling that Senior year is going to fly by pretty quickly!