Today Alexandria received six-emails from scholarship committees notifying her that she won. We are so excited! A great start.

She also won the Washington Opportunity Scholarship for up to $20,000/year for each year of her bachelor degree. She will find out how much she won in the first week of May.

Today we met after school to work on two-scholarships, bringing her total to 44- applications. Love how she writes drafts before we meet. All we have to do is polish, not start from scratch.

"I just got an email!" Alexandria said excitedly. "It's another scholarship award!"

I insisted she apply for local music scholarships. So far, she won two-music scholarships. In her junior and senior years, Alexandria has been first flute and flute section leader in band, orchestra and marching band. "But what if I don't want to play flute in college?" she asked. "I've been playing music all my life." She plays flute, violin, bass guitar and acoustic guitar.

"They're not going to check on you at University of Washington," I reassured her.

My goal is to have her graduate from college with no debt. She will need to do work-study jobs and work during summer vacations.