<p>I never thought I was a crier.
I did tear up a lot at my daughter high school graduation- but I figured that was for so many reasons. The commencement speaker was a recent breast cancer survivor for one.
I just attended her friends college graduation ( hers will be next year) and I had to bite the inside of my cheek to keep from crying. ( I really didn’t want to- celtic coloring makes me look a mess when I cry)
I never used to be like this- am I just menopausal?
The ceremony was actually pretty enjoyable, the president apparently fashions himself after a stand up comic as do apparently many professors according to my daughter, gotta milk it while youve got their attention I guess ;)</p>
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If you are, you’re not alone! I never discount the hormonal impact on anything - it’s better than saying, “Am I just nuts?”</p>
<p>I returned yesterday from oldest d’s graduation - could not stop the tears rolling down my face until the student speaker got to the podium with one of the funniest speeches I’ve ever heard. Of course, it got poignant at the end and I was leaking again.</p>
<p>Even when it’s NOT your kid - seeing so many young people on the brink of adult life is very moving. We know they’ll have joys and sorrows, and wish them many of the first and as few of the second as possible. Just see the friend’s ceremony as a rehearsal for your d’s next year, and be sure to bring more kleenex than you think you’ll need, because the mom in front of you will have to borrow some.</p>
<p>I consider this to be the year where delayed onset puberty met early menopause. 
I think that has the makings of a reality tv show. </p>
<p>I don’t know if I will cry at my son’s graduation. I didn’t cry at the older two kids’ h.s. graduations and I didn’t cry at my oldest son’s college graduation last week. I did however become almost completely hysterical as I cleaned the house for his party the day before, so go figure. </p>
<p>At big events, my camera is my buffer zone. The closer I feel to tears, the more pictures I take. I have 12 rolls of undeveloped film. lol</p>
<p>It is very hormonal. I was never a big crier as a young person, but while I was pregnent with my first I found my self crying at the silliest things on TV. Also, I found it hard to watch any sort of intense emotion in a movie (I can take it on TV because I can get up and walk away) - no horror movies or suspenseful thrillers for me - I get physically ill.
These intense feelings got better after I completely recovered from pregnancy, but I have never gone back to being the way I was before - go figure.</p>
<p>I am already concerned at the thought of how I may behave next year when D graduates. Sometimes I think I must be crazy. I cry far too much and for the silliest reasons. Remember the Hallmark commercial with the lonely elderly lady who lived across the street from a 30-something-year-old mom who would send the lady cards just so she wouldn’t walk away from an empty mailbox? That one made me boo-hoo. I can’t even watch Extreme Makeover Home Edition … the stories make me so sad and then the floodgates open. I’m too super-sensitive. I don’t want to embarrass D next year. OMG, can you imagine how I might behave at her wedding in the future? I’ve got to toughen up … or get some medication!</p>
<p>Cangel, I remember sobbing when I was pregnant for no apparent reason. I had a great pregnancy, no morning sickness, felt great, etc., but would just occasionally have periods of sobbing. When my DH would ask what was wrong, I couldn’t even tell him … I didn’t know. The most embarrassing crying spell during my pregnancy? I was craving a chicken sandwich from Wendy’s. I went through the drive-thru, placed my order, took it home, poured a large glass of milk and unwrapped my sandwich. On my chicken sandwich was mustard, ketchup, onion … everything except cheese … like they were dressing a burger! I was so disappointed … who could eat chicken with all that stuff on it! Anyway, I broke down and cried. I called Wendy’s (while still crying!) to let them know about the error. The poor boy who answered the phone must have thought I was absolutely bananas. He assured me they would give me a free meal the next time I was there. When I finally regained my senses a while later, I was terribly embarrassed and was convinced I would never show my face at that Wendy’s again. Don’t you know, though, I was back the next week collecting on my free meal.</p>
<p>Music is what sets me off; my daughter now carries tissue with her (for me) for Good Friday services, Easter cantatas, Christmas Eve candlelight services…you get the picture. Until recently, I thought maybe it was a “church thing”, but I’ve been crying like a mad fool at the end of the year choir and band concerts. And my daughter is a junior; I am so sunk for next year!</p>
<p>Apparently I am certifiable. I think I’m actually looking forward to tears at HS Grad ( a few weeks to go, then will report in). Don’t want a full-fledged breakdown,mind you (that celtic-coloring, EK4 :)). Trying to guess why I feel this way - and I’m thinking it’s due to S’s absolute refusal to act like he cares, at least most of the time. Altho I did post that he and two friends admitted to welling-up at their final concert performance, with “You’ll Never Walk Alone” as the special encore - designed to eliminate dry eyes, I figure, and it even worked for the boys!</p>
<p>Chase Card Services has a series of TV commercials running currently - graduations, weddings with the father going between current views of his daughter and flashbacks to her birth, childhood etc. I’ve seen them each 3-4 times and still well up anew. And it’s a commercial for gdness sakes!
<a href=“http://www.jpmorganchase.com/cm/cs?pagename=Chase/Href&urlname=jpmc/about/adv_chase[/url]”>http://www.jpmorganchase.com/cm/cs?pagename=Chase/Href&urlname=jpmc/about/adv_chase</a></p>
<p>Yes, a full box of kleenex at upcoming Senior events will make me v popular with the other moms, I’m sure.</p>
<p>Me, too!!! 
I am already a mess and grad day is not until the end of June. My senior D has had an amazing run at her school and we are likley moving this summer, so it is not merely the school, but every wonderful thing we have seen & done whilst here!</p>
<p>Music- how about the song “100 years” by Five for Fighting! Also, how about the Green Day song Time of your life.</p>
<p>I can cry over anything these days, it is nice to know others are feeling as soggy as I am!</p>
<p>Every last banquet, every last concert, every last performance, every last event (and there have been any number the last few weeks…and the coming few weeks…) brings me to tears. Just telling special teachers how much they mean to D starts the waterworks in me…oh, I’m SUCH a ninny! D received a special surprise award a couple of nights ago and the tears were streaming down my face…thank goodness the banquet room was kind of dark (even though I was standing at the front of the room helping hand out the awards!) so I don’t THINK too many people noticed. At least I didn’t go into the “ugly cry.” I guess I"m probably saving THAT for graduation. oy veh!</p>
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Yep, that’ll do it
Now, this one was at S’s eighth grade graduation as the kids marched in. Then for the slide show collage of their baby/toddler pics interspersed with current candids they did “I Will Remember You.” Either of these two can get me going any time. In fact, we had the option to buy a video of the slide show, which I did, despite S and H thinking I was insane. I still sit down and watch it from time to time. Since our small town has only one elem, one middle and one hs the vast majority of these kids are still part of our everyday lives. <em>leaves to retrieve that box of kleenex</em> :o</p>
<p>Wow- my oldests’ grade 8 grad used the Green Day song, too, and I have teared up every time I hear it since!</p>
<p>100 years would be my vote for this years grad class!</p>
<p>I’m gonna try so hard not to make a fool of myself next week at d’s graduation. I will have a whole box of tissue “just in case”.</p>
<p>A little off topic… that song “will I see you in heaven?” used to cause such tears that I always had to switch radio stations whenever it was played.</p>
<p>Boy. I hadn’t even thought about this one. Crying at graduation. Last embarassing crying over kids I had was when I was pregnant with S. Took H and D to Rome. 5 months pregnant. Knew child-to-be was a boy. Went and saw the Pieta. Am not religious. However, in that statue, the dead Jesus lies across his mother’s lap. The detail that had me standing there for 10 minutes, sobbing, while the Italians and other tourists pretended not to notice? With his dead hand Jesus is holding just one fold of his mother’s skirt. Just one fold.</p>
<p>Oh man.</p>
<p>Is there any chance that pride welling up as D dances Prayer, from Sleeping Beauty, will overcome the desire to cry? I’m probably really deluding myself…Sounds like a lot of you have performing seniors - does that make it more sob-filled or less?</p>
<p>I’ll admit that I’m stressing about graduation – and it’s not happening until next year. Hopefully I’ll have it out of my system by then. </p>
<p>The silliest thing that always brought tears to my eyes was the commercial where the son comes home early a.m. from college and starts the coffee. Mom wakes up with the scent of brewing coffee and comes into the kitchen and boom the tears would start flowing everytime I saw it.</p>
<p>I am now thinking handkerchiefs are more dignified than sodden Kleenex. Hey you bargain people - where can we get a gross of cc handkerchiefs?</p>
<p>My dd will be dancing at graduation with a friend, while two other of her best friends sing “For Good” from “Wicked”. </p>
<p>ARGHH!!!</p>
<p>“Because I knew you, I have been changed for good…”</p>
<p>Let the water works begin!</p>
<p>And yes, long distance and Publix commercials can set me off…</p>
<p>The Publix commercial where the older couples cooks dinner together, including a pie and takes it to the new neighbors- a young couple. Tears all around! Which I had neighbors like that!!</p>
<p>I am so glad I’m not the only weepy Mom! I have cried at every “last” event all year. In his final muscial this year, I started crying as soon as they struck the first chords of the last song. Today he received his Appointment and I was biting my lip to keep from sobbing. Graduation is going to be just a sob fest! I thought the “pride I felt for him” would keep me just smiling too, but it didn’t work for very long.</p>
<p>Count me in as a cryer! I was at lunch today with my husband, and even the mention of the ceremony this weekend got me going. I am planning on wearing industrial strenght makeup or else I will look like a character from a Saturday Night Live skit. At least my S knows me and will expect the water works. Our guests may worry about me a little though.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I’ll cry at the graduation ceremony next week as my mother-in-law will be with us, and I’m usually too p.o.'d at her for something or other she said to get very emotional. Though, for commercials, do you remember the cotton commercial? It had a couple fighting in a car, and blind girl playing with some sheets hanging out to dry…lyrics, “the touch, the feel, of cotton…the fabric of our lives”. SNIFFFF</p>