Welcome to another catch-up post from May.
We officially have three graduates in our family this year.
Our youngest grandchild graduated from kindergarten. He lives in the same town we do and I believe this is the first year they held a kindergarten graduation.
Later that week we attended our #4 grandson's graduation from 5th grade. Graduating from 5th grade in his country consolidated school means he moves to the other side of the building.
And that Sunday we traveled to the Big City for our oldest grandson's high school graduation. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with all kinds of awards. We are very proud of him. He is also very tall. He and his best friend are having a joint reception in July.
We received three out of state announcements and party invitations from great nephews and nieces in Texas, Montana, and Florida. We sent well wishes and checks but were very disappointed to miss the parties.
We will be attending a neighbor's high school graduation party next Saturday and I am hoping for a sandwich! Graduation season usually means I don't have to cook on Saturday. My favorite graduation parties are hog roasts but I think we lucked out this year.
Congratulations to all your precious graduates. I know you are proud of all three and rightfully so.
ReplyDeleteGrad parties are happening here too, we have 2 coming this weekend.
PS - I love your dress with your high school grad. You look so cute!
One of each stage of life except college and that will come soon enough! I know you're proud of all of them. We attend lots of virtual events for our London girl and sure wish we could be there in person.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Betsy
My favorite book in junior-high grades was an Agnes Sligh Turnbull book about an 1850s Pennsylvania family, coming on up into several generations---I loved the story, the setting, the quiet, hardworking folks (I did know a lot of that work, surrounded by cotton fields and a neighbor who had a big black washpot in her backyard and would let me "joog" the sudsing blue load of her menfolks' railroad overalls") and the simplicity of their each-one-had-a-cup, a plate and knife and spoon).
ReplyDeleteSomehow my mind still over these years returns to that title, that quick span of time that in my imagination was a great green wall of color, spinning away into the distance. THAT'S how I remember graduations and weddings and birthdays---in their flying past, with the tickle of anticipation, the preparation, the enjoying. That is on my mind today, as I head out to get the preps for Sweetpea's graduation party on Saturday. They're "ordering in" the area's fabulous chicken fingers, and we're doing taking brownies (school color m&ms on Katharine Hepburn's recipe), a huge Ooey-gooey cake, great bowls of strawberries and dips, and a Nanner Pudding.
That's mostly how my years have rolled---menus and recipes and grocery lists in my two dozen lined-up journals, which hold the thoughts and dreams and needful remembrances of the past forty years. We watch them, we put out a guiding hand, a soft shoulder, a remembered how-to, a gentle reminder, and let those wings fly high as our tears of joy come down.
Oh, my---I've thrown too many words into this remembrance, and wish you and all your graduates and family a wonderful Summer to come.