Did He or Didn't He?

As you know we are currently homeschooling our two boys while our daughter goes to a school of the arts for opera. This is our eighth year homeschooling and we love it. Son-13 (David)is in eighth grade this year in our little private school, Endeavor Academy. Next year is high school. There are lots of ways to homeschool high school, but pretty much if you decide to homeschool high school it is hard to move over to a public school once high school starts - the public school does not have to accept your credits that you earned as a homeschooler. With this in mind, I wanted to give David some options: our local public high school which is academically strong, the school daughter goes to which is academically strong and has a creative writing program David is interested in, and of course homeschooling (this would be a combo of different things including junior college courses).

David flatly turned down the offer to go to the local public school. He agreed to submit a portfolio to the creative writing department at the school of the arts. He is also good with homeschooling. Well, his portfolio was enough to get him an audition for creative writing. He went to the school and was given a writing prompt. This was a few weeks ago and he promptly told me he had bombed it. Although, honestly what he told me sounded pretty good. Then the wait began to see if he would get in. For me, it just meant if he did get in one more option for him to choose from. As we talked about the possibility, his dad and I could see he was actually excited about the prospect of going.

David left on a week long canoe trip with the Boy Scouts yesterday. Before he left, I asked him if something came from the school for him may I open it. WHAT WAS I THINKING!!! He hemmed and hawed and finally decided he wanted to be the one to open it. So what happens? When I get home from dropping him at the canoe launch point, I find the letter in the mailbox. Now I have to wait a week to know if he got in! This will be agony.

I have tried to read through the envelope, but the way the letter is folded makes it impossible to see the results of the audition. I keep thinking about movies where someone steams open the envelope and re-seals it. Does that work? I am not sure I can wait a whole week.

Oh my goodness how awful are college acceptance letters going to be in a couple of years!!!!!