Siamese Sunflower.

Look closely.....I have a Siamese sunflower! There are not one but two blooms on the same flower, side-by-side, next to eachother, fused to eachother, like Siamese twins! It's like a 2-faced, 2-sided sunflower, a rare anomaly indeed!

These are the last 2 of them to bloom.

Our latest crisis as well: the fashion design school in BC the 18 YR old is all ready to go to in just 5 weeks( and where they have already accepted her, given her a scholarship, she's reserved a dorm and got her airline ticket) called and said oh, by the way, we need her to write the SAT exam and need her score first before we can admit her, since she's homeschooled, that's our policy.......ummmm....yeah, but why didn't they tell us that before? I know it is standard practice with homeschooled students as her siblings that went to college and university needed SAT scores for admission but no mention was made of this before, 1-2 years ago when she first looked into it and the application process begun, so why now, last-minute, and not enough time? So did they not tell her before or did she know it was a requirement but somehow thought she could "dodge" it and they wouldn't notice and it just caught up with her now? It takes a year or so to prepare and study for the SAT, and the test is only offered a couple of times a year and only at certain out-of-town locations anyway and takes a few months to even get your results......there's no way she'd possibly make it on time in just 5 weeks......it's just impossible......

Her dream has been shattered. She's now going to have a wait at least another year now. She was so excited, so looking forward to it, and now this. I know God has a bigger plan, that this is happening for a bigger purpose, for the greater good in the end, even though we don't know it at the time or see it now, perhaps he's even protecting her from something if she went this year as planned, like a shooting on campus or a fire at the dorm, or a problem with the flight, or whatever, I don't know, but I know God has reasons for everything and He has a plan for her and her life, just like He does for all for us, and even though this is deeply disappointing to all of us I also know things will end up working out for the best in the end but oh, my God, haven't we gone thru enough?