Tatum’s home and summer has started! Her friend Anna and Marina were tearful about her departure, giving the best compliment ever: “You’re the most girl’s girl I’ve ever met.” Dean of Advancement Katy also loved Tatum, as did several other staff and faculty
But there’s no holding her back when summer awaits. She will spend the next two days in full-day lifeguard training, hopefully followed by a job at Palisades pool. But the biggest, most pressing priority from the eyes of Girl, 17, is the driver’s license. She has completed her practice hours—thank you, Highways 66 and 81, between Staunton and Cabin John—but needs the class and exam passed.
In the meantime, she’s engrossed in her childhood Lego set, searching for the elf house, Little’s pet shop and the tiny horses. But that’s after an evening at home with Indian food, boyfriend Beaman and family…discussing how challenged and inappropriate immature high school boys are. Adolescence is an interesting time. (May I live through them and not in them.)
I’m so happy for Tatum that her summer has started; two weeks for Finn’s and three for Clara’s. Work has kicked into high gear for me so I will be thrilled when four weeks have passed, if I lived through them with grace and deadlines met. That’s when I’ll put my flip flops up by the pool, with a dewy lemonade in my right hand and a novel in my left. And I’ll watch other people swim—namely Finn, who just joined the swim team—and do nothing with great joy.
@theterrace 