Shannon's orientation

Shannon & I attended her UTSA orientation for 3 days. It was interesting but mostly boring. That's what Shannon's overall comment was - Boring! I stayed in the new Laurel Village with no roommate and Shannon stayed in Chaparral with 3 roommates that never spoke to her. The lectures mostly focused on alerting us to the dangers of college life. Shannon came away nervous about being able to study enough to pass. We've been reassuring her that she can do it with all the help that will be given to her as an athlete. It was really cool to see how she fit in so easily with the athletes when they called the athletes out of the general orientation group. There were volleyball players, track, basketball and golf and it was so different to see how Shannon was definitely an athlete. I've always known she was an athlete but it was so dramatically displayed when she left the orientation with normal people and joined the athletes for their physicals.
It was also fun having the athletic staff take care of her registration and make it so easy for us. We discovered she will probably get tired of cafeteria food pretty quickly, it costs $1.50 per load of laundry, she knows the buildings where all of her classes are, she's got a great schedule as a freshman, she needs to carry sunglasses, there are about 20 wild cats around campus, and lots of other vital stuff. I think she's a little better prepared but it will still be hard for all of us come Aug. 20.

Shan's graduation

Shannon made it successfully across the stage. I tried to get pictures but my camera didn't work well. It looked like there were several professional photographers there so hopefully, we'll get a decent photo. There were several people there for Shannon's graduation: Granny & Paw-paw re-scheduled their trip to New Mexico so they could be there, Chris and Angie, Brianna and Janice, Angeles, Dane and Coach and Delayna all joined us at Cracker Barrel. It's always challenging after graduation to get our group together and take pictures. Right when we find everyone, it started raining so we all evacuated to our cars. Angeles had to leave Cracker Barrell early and she had rode with Dane so she took his truck and we took Dane back to Angeles' little bitty car. It was comical seeing him try to get in. He couldn't find the latch to get the seat to move back but Chris saved the day and figured it out. We are all very proud of Shannon for her accomplishments.

Shannon is cleaning!

Wow! Now this is something! Shannon bought a new shower curtain, liner and hooks today and I just called to check on her. She said she hadn't hung it up, yet, because she's busy cleaning! How exciting! I should send her to buy new shower curtains more often.

Matthew is cooking!

Matthew moved into an apartment this summer. So far he's cooked spaghetti and this week he tackled my hot chicken rice casserole! He said it turned out OK. I'm so impressed with his desire to cook! I guess cooking and chemistry kinda go along together and cooking might come easily for him. I'll have to think of other meals he can try - and buy him more cooking stuff!

Could be interesting...

OK, I'll try this. Surely I can find stuff to write about and hopefully, this will help improve my journaling for my scrapbooks.