{"id":12976,"date":"2020-02-08T07:53:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T12:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=12976"},"modified":"2020-02-08T07:53:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T12:53:41","slug":"in-which-they-grew-up-while-you-werent-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2020\/02\/08\/in-which-they-grew-up-while-you-werent-looking\/","title":{"rendered":"In which they grew up while you weren’t looking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>n my last post, I mentioned that if I chose to go ahead with blogging (which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve clearly decided to do!) there would be less emphasis on the kids and their stories. And then don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they just go ahead and have a week full of amazing and exciting milestones that I pretty much just have to share?<\/p>\n

Tristan is finishing his last year of high school and has had his eye for the last year or so on a program at Carleton University called Interactive Media Design. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a very cool program that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a perfect marriage of two things Tristan loves: art and technology. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s basically the design side of video game production, with a strong foundation in the computer science behind it, and in the end a graduate will have both a degree from Carleton University and a diploma from Algonquin College. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a prestigious program, though, and they only accept 50 of the 500 or more applicants they receive each year. In addition to passing Grade 12 functions, which was a nail-biter for a while, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s had to prepare a portfolio that will be weighed equally with his grades in his application. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just about to submit the portfolio \u00e2\u20ac\u201c cross your fingers and toes! But, while he was busy doing that, he also applied to two other programs at Carleton for his plan B and plan C alternatives, and to our delight, received early acceptance this week to both of them! So it looks like we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have a Carleton university student in the house as of September, one way or the other.<\/p>\n

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Not to be outdone by his older brother, Simon turned 16 on Saturday and by lunchtime on the day he turned 16 he had his newly minted beginner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s driver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s licence in his hand. (Yiiiiiiiiikes!) After a few careful loops around the empty parking lot of government office, he has taken to the roads like a duckling to water. <\/p>\n

Lucas doesn’t have anything quite so exciting on his plate, but he did turn 12 this week, and is finishing his last year of elementary school before going to middle school in the fall when Tristan goes off to university.<\/p>\n

So in the span of a few short days, we have one child (or not-so-much-a-child) with two early acceptances to university, one baby turning 12, and one with his driver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s licence!! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a proud week in parenting, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve come a long way since the sweet little babies they were when I started the blog \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which, by the way, happens to be exactly 15 years ago this week.<\/p>\n

So, I guess I’m back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my last post, I mentioned that if I chose to go ahead with blogging (which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve clearly decided to do!) there would be less emphasis on the kids and their stories. And then don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they just go ahead and have a week full of amazing and exciting milestones that I pretty much just have … Continue reading “In which they grew up while you weren’t looking”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah-me-boys","category-simon","category-tristan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12979,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976\/revisions\/12979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}