Are these our kids?

Our kids have a knack of surprising us in many positive ways. Nick and Matt both received awards from the TAS Upper School and Middle School, respectively this the Spring. They both played well enough in the ACC Tennis Championship so that Nick won the Consolation Singles and Matt was the runners up in the Main Draw.

While at the Nike Tennis Camp a couple of weeks ago in Santa Cruz, Nick was picked as "Camper of the week." Again at this week's MCC Tennis Awards Ceremony, both kids were awarded with different trophies. Matt won a third place trophy for beating Ryan Stone in the MCC Junior 15 and under championship match. Nick took home the Charles E. Ivy Award, basically the camper of the season award at MCC, at the ceremony. He was deemed to be hard working, involved in every aspect of tennis both on and off the court and is a "role model" for his fellow tennis players.

This really reminds us our first parent-teacher meeting with Nick's teacher at Chilton House in Singapore and his teacher was describing this wonderful child who was thoughtful, kind, and everything a teacher could asked for in a class. Both Felicia and I looked at each other and asked the teacher, "are you sure you are talking about Nick?"

In many ways, we are thankful that our kids are recognized by many people to be kind, thoughtful, good mannered, and nice children by other people. Sometimes, we just wish that they could be as kind, thoughtful, good mannered and nice at home......