Can I be your Special Advisor, MrsS? 
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for you tonight. So glad to hear your news!
BTM, you are doing an amazing job of looking after your mum. The fact that she is having a bit of a wobble is entirely normal under the circs, I feel. Good luck with all the stuff you have to do over the next day or two.
Dd had just come to terms with taking a gap year and has applied for some kind of internship in Paris for Jan next year. And last night went and got herself a new hamster, as she is back to her normal self in terms of liking animals and wanting to be kind to critters - and said she wasn't planning on leaving home for a while yet.
She had just put the new critter in his cage and sorted him out with treats, when she got an email from UCAS with a rather low offer (relatively speaking) for Biomedical Science from a perfectly decent university. She had given the impression that she had got rejections from all her choices, but it turns out that she's previously only heard from her first choice and none of the others have been in contact.
She's no longer getting her knickers in a twist about the whole uni thing, which is good. I think the year out would be a better plan, so I hope she goes with that, tbh. But I have absolutely no idea how it's all going to play out and as long as she's well, I'm not really bothered about it all just now, either.
I have yet another working w/e lined up with a surprise pile of work pitching up for Job 2. Feel churlish complaining, so I won't. I'll just grind my teeth quietly in the corner.