To help encourage Reese to focus on her college applications, we suggested she give us her phone for a few days. She doesn’t have internet or social media, but her friends call and text at all hours of the day and night.
After less than 24 hours of her not checking or responding to texts, she had received 324 text messages! To be fair, many of them were from a group thread for Ignite, but 324?! Bananas.
We are full of snacks and encouragement, and the whole family is getting hilariously creative with our pressure to help her keep her eye on the prize. “Write your college essays” is now the punch line for every joke, whispered secret, or note on the bathroom mirror. Yesterday, Aaron asked Reese is she had seen the “new” tithing slips the church is issuing.
She’s getting there. T minus 10 days!
