Not the best ever photo but it's the selfie Lucy took to sign up for the ACT so it's appropriate for this post. She got a 34! Is that great or what? I thought the 2120 on the SAT was good, but she tells me that this ACT score is even better.
I promised her clear back in October that I would post about her being admitted to Southern Utah University with a full scholarship and I haven't done it. This week she was admitted into the honors program and encouraged to apply for an honors housing scholarship as well. Wouldn't that be great?
By the way, She applied to Northern Arizona, BYU, and Tulane in Louisiana. She's stubborn--didn't want anything to do with a school in CA. Couldn't talk her into applying to an Ivy League though. She didn't want to waste the money on fees to a school that was too far away. (Tulane gave her free application.)
She's having a pretty good school year. She's still dating Austin. She's in preconditioning for softball and leading the mock trial team. She had grade issues again though--got behind while at Yosemite for a leadership trip and never really caught back up. It's a good thing that AP classes earn a 4.0 for a B.
She asked me to hide her phone and tablet over the Christmas break so she can finish personal progress, not as much so she can feel the accomplishment, but more so she can skip Tuesday nights more and not deal with her leaders as much. (No, I'm not one of her leaders anymore.)
I guess the thing that I'm most happy about is that she really likes me again. We had a couple pretty tough years. Losing Ian in the middle of her terrible teens made even more excruciating for both of us. Now, she wants to spend time with me. She even told Keith that he needed to sleep on the couch last night so she could be in bed with me.
