<p>My son’s last day of classes is today. I took a picture of him standing next to his car with his backpack. I’m going to drag out his picture from his first day of kindergarten getting on the bus and put them out together for awhile. Wow the time has gone so fast!</p>
<p>ahhhhh…my Ds last day as a sophmore is today…sigh</p>
<p>two years left to nag</p>
<p>Nice idea Weenie!</p>
<p>weenie,</p>
<p>Yes, the time has gone by fast because a part of you still sees the little boy who went off to kindergarten. </p>
<p>I’ll be right there by you handing you tissues in cyberspace. Please don’t make me borrow sponges or buckets :)</p>
<p>I bet in kindergarten you couldn’t even envision a time when he would be driving his own car to school!</p>
<p>As an aside, I think senioritis has finally struck my daughter, whose last day is June 8. She has continued to be very conscientious about schoolwork since her ED acceptance in December all the way through the AP tests. The other day I said to her that she didn’t seem to be doing much hw or studying for her few remaining finals. She replied, “What do you expect? We’re on 5-4-3 now!”
I asked, “What’s 5-4-3 ???” Reply (very quickly said) - “5 days this week, 4 days the next week, and 3 days the next week!!!” </p>
<p>Then it’s over until graduation on the 13th ! 
(tears starting to flow)</p>
<p>I guess she deserves to enjoy a little fun and relaxation at the end. I’m not complaining at all.</p>
<p>At grad parties around here it’s common to display pictures of the graduate on a table for all to see. Besides the K- 12 posed pictures there would also be those bus pictures, class trips, etc. Since most grad parties have adult friends and relatives it doesn’t seem as braggish as it probably is. More like, wow, can you believe my little one grew up?!</p>
<p>My son’s last day was last Wednesday and when I came out and saw him sitting at the kitchen table my mind instantly flashed to the picture I have of him in his Ninja Turtle shirt (couldn’t get him to wear anything else!) and his Crayola backpack waiting for kindergarten. It was definately a kleenex moment. One of many lately :)</p>
<p>Our school encourages senior collages for each gradating student, and hangs them around the walls of the gym for the last couple weeks of school. It’s a great way to see the stages these young people went through! (Not to mention fun to put together: I didn’t let my S see the collage until he saw it on the wall at school. I’d chosen one of his landscape photographs and printed it large enough to be the background of the collage, with his photos in an arc at the top. It was different enough that I think he actually <em>liked</em> it.)</p>
<p>Last day of school for son was on Monday–his last IB exam. He is helping out with tech work on a musical production this evening and graduation is next Saturday, June 4. It did go so quickly! I am going to make one of those iphoto books with pics from kindergarten through senior year: one for him, one for me. And off he goes…</p>
<p>Weenie, that is a good idea to take a photo on the last day of school. </p>
<p>On my fridge, we have a photo from the first day of kindergarten of my oldest D boarding the bus. Then we have a photo of her first day of 10th grade which was the day after her sixteenth birthday on which she got her driving license and so there is a picture of her getting into the car on that first day when she drove herself to school for the first time…side by side with boarding the K bus photo. I had not thought of a photo of the last day of high school though I recall that day last year when it happened. </p>
<p>For her graduation, I made a framed photo collage that is about 3 feet by four feet and it has approximately 200 trimmed photos of it from her first 18 years (and yes, there are many of those first day of each grade photos…we used to take these by the elem school sign every year on the first day) plus many other moments in her life. It was quite the undertaking and quite the puzzle to trim these and fit 200 into the collage. Because I did it for her, I definitely will need to do it for my second child who is graduating on June 18 and I better get going on it soon as it took a long time just to cull through all these years of photos (we take a LOT) and then to select them, trim them and fit them into a jigsaw puzzle type collage. This second kid is gonna have lots of photos of about 40 roles she has played. I don’t have a photo of her first drive of the car this time. But a last day of school is a great idea. We always take one on the first day of school.</p>