My Kiddo is a Junior!!! What? How?

So it's back to school time again.  Emily's a junior this year!  I literally can't imagine that I have a kid who is a junior.  That's insane to me.   How did this happen?  But ok... I've got to face facts, I do indeed have a Junior in High school!!  LOL!  It's truly astonishing how fast it went. I also could not be prouder of her.   This year will probably hold sooo many new experiences for Emily.   She (we) will be tiptoeing our way through college planning.  I say tiptoeing because she's only a Junior so we have a little time.  But since this is my only child,  maybe I'm just being naive there.  She will have to take the SAT's this year.  We are thinking in May.  She did well when she took a PSAT in Freshman year.  So hopefully she'll do well again,  Thankfully she doesn't get too stressed out about those kinds of test.   I know she will do fine,  she is very lucky that she has a really good grasp of many different kinds of studies.   Anyway, my hopes for this new year for her are what they are every year, that she makes a new friend or two.  That she is happy, safe,  that she continues to learn the life skills she will need to live successfully independently one day.  As well I hope she continues to love learning.  Emily is and always has been a lover of learning.  I remember when she was about 2.  I signed her up for this monthly book learning series mail order thing.  I believe it was called "Brighter Vision" learning series or something like that.  She got it for several years.  Each month the package would arrive and it would contain an activity book, a project of some kind & an actual book.  It was really cool. it would grow with your child, so the older the child got, the more advanced the materials.  Ever since Emily was very young, toddler age or before....  she has enjoyed books, would sit on your lap and let you read book after book to her.   I think this contributed to her reading at such an early age.  She was reading well before her 3rd birthday.  Her love of learning hasn't diminished any either,  it's obviously evolved & today many of her learning is via TV or the internet but it's still there.  That love for learning. Learning about EVERYTHING!   We always tease her that she can't believe everything on the internet... we say "BonJour" because of that TV commercial from awhile ago about the man who listed himself as a "french model" on the internet, but was really just some random below average looking fellow, who's line was "BonJour" to "prove" he was who he claimed.   I forget what the commercial was for.  I'd call that's a marketing fail. LOL!  Right now her favorite show on television is this show she discovered called Mysteries at the museum.  Which tells interesting tales about famous or infamous things from the past, things you might find in a museum.  I've actually not seen an episode of it.  It apparently has been on for like 11 seasons, how do I know this,  because we have 57 episodes on the DVR.   She has watched most of them.  We are down to like 20% of space.  How will I record my real housewives?  ;)   Anyway... just wanted to pop on her to give my kiddo a shout out and say,  "Emily.... have a great year!  You are amazing and I love you!"  Love, Mom.