In or not?

Tomorrow we find out how B has done in his exams - whether or not he has got high enough marks to gain entrance to the chosen boarding school. And even though I don't want him to leave and go away, I know that he desperately wants to go to this school.

He has tried really hard for these exams and has spent an awful lot of time studying. This is probably one of the first times that I have ever seen him really knuckle down and approach something with a specific goal in mind.

Z is normally the goal-focused one of the family, and these past few weeks it has been B who has sat down at the dining room table with his books, B who has asked questions about English and B who has queried how mathematics problems are solved.

He brought home one of his exam papers yesterday and he worked through it again in his own time and then asked the banker to double check it and the banker, being a banker of course, could do this. B did very well.

So tomorrow we find out, and my heart is just itching to know and really, really hoping for good news for him.

Although it will break my heart to send him away.

The mother's dilemma!