Growing Up

Last month Sadie turned 21! Wow! We celebrated early because we knew we wouldn't see her on her actual birthday.

She is now a senior in college and taking her final semester of classes to complete her bachelor's degree in accounting. After Christmas she will complete an internship with an accounting firm before graduating. She has already interviewed with two firms in Atlanta for her internship. They are not allowed to offer her a position until September (Auburn sets this requirement so students can look at all offers at one time and make a decision) but both told her that they were going to. Furthermore, they both also told her that the offer of an internship would also lead to an offer of employment after she completes her graduate work. So as of right now she is looking at two job offers! Good news!!!

But there's more. After completing her bachelor's degree, Sadie is going to begin graduate school (for 3 semesters) in order to complete the requirement to take the CPA exam. She has taken the GMAT for admissions and her advisor told her that she should be admitted and that she should also be able to have all of her graduate tuition paid while working her current campus job (which would also pay her a healthy stipend on top of covering tuition). Great news!!!

We have always promised the kids that if they finish college we will buy them a car. Although it's a little early, we went out and got Sadie hers this weekend. The combination of the wonderful model year-end clearance prices and the fact that she'll need something reliable to drive around Atlanta in a few months helped us make the leap a bit early. She loves her current 2001 Toyota Corolla, with 200,000 miles, but I'm sure she'll like the 2014 just as much.

Words cannot express the feelings of pride and excitement I have for Sadie as she starts this next phase of her life! Almost all grown up.