<p>Jym, I hope your husband gets home safely and that the bad weather stops following him. </p>
<p>Have you recovered from your crazy weekend yet? It sounds like fun - but not somehing I would do very often if I were you.</p>
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<p>Ha! I know (and admire) your type. You’ll be at it again in no time, at least for that bourbon-laced CC sleepover.</p>
<p>Well, mafool, you probably have me pegged. I am now trying to look into a double graduation party for my guys (who, as many of you remember, will graduate HS and college in different states on the same day 
). Can’t make plans 'til DS #1 determines if he is going to S America with his Engineers without Borders team. So the party is on hold til he figures it out.</p>
<p>LIMOM-
Weather here STINKS. We are getting much-needed rain, but wind and other yukky stuff (downed trees due to bad root systems due to the drought). Hope DHs flight arrives safely later today.</p>
<p>Jym, I gave a double graduation party last May for my guys. If I had it to do over again, I’d do it bigger – and serve more food. Luckily, their grad dates were six weeks apart, so that wasn’t a problem. Is the college late or the high school early?? Or both?</p>
<p>One good thing about living in NY - high school and college graduation dates will almost never occur on the same date as high schools up here end so late in June. What are you going to do about that conflict? One parent at each graduation? Or are you able to somehow magically make it to both? </p>
<p>Sorry about the bad weather Jym - it’s warm up here, but rain is expected. I think you can probably put the blame for the rain on your husband, since you had such a lovely weekend. It does sound like the nasty weather is traveling with him. I also hope his plane arrives safely and on time.</p>
<p>The brie recipe sounds so good I think I need to organize a little party just to try it. Mmmmmmmmmmm, thanks!</p>
<p>I’ve been whining about the weather here for days…now we have 4-5 inches of snow predicted overnight, so maybe it will really happen, with perfect timing - not too early, not too late - to get us a snow day.</p>
<p>DH’s plane just landed. About 90’ late due to the weather, but it is safely on the ground and the sun is now shining. Yay. However, he sounds like he has a dreadful cold, which I really dont want.
veryhappy-
I guess both HS and college graduation dates are early (May 10). Every now and then some poor senior (HS) has to take an AP exam, or make-up exam, after graduation. My s had to b/c he had too many science APs and some of the tests were scheduled on the same day (if memory serves me correctly). The graduating srs HATE having to do that. Cant say that I blame them one bit.</p>
<p>Any tips for a double graduation party are appreciated!</p>
<p>In 2 1/4 years we’ll have one graduating from HS and one from college in the same year. It looks like one in mid-May and one in early June, however.</p>
<p>And if the college boy doesn’t make up that class he flagged, he might be a semester later anyway! :D</p>
<p>OK, I’m an old f**t, but a combo HS, college grad party sounds like fun for all! Many of the local folks who are around for the college grad’s party would likely have HS ties as well (assuming both students went to the same HS), and may have sibling/offspring commonalities. And the HS friends, though they might never admit it, might be a bit in awe of the college grad folks, who may, in turn, have fun reliving those earlier days. Does that convoluted sentence make sense?</p>
<p>Also, I’ll be back with the very simple instructions for the requested Gouda in pastry dish…I just don’t remember the oven temp.</p>
<p>We invited sons’ friends, and parents’ friends, and parents of sons’ friends, and relatives. (Got all that??) Did it Memorial Day weekend, so sister from CA could come and visit for the whole weekend. It was technically before S2 had graduated from high school, but since APs were over and final exams barely counted, we knew we were safe!</p>
<p>My mistake: I invited people over at 7:30, assuming they would have eaten dinner and would just want munchies. Wrong!</p>
<p>mommusic-
Both offered to fail a year so that we wouldn’t have the graduation conflict! We told them that wasn’t necessary.</p>
<p>Mafool and veryhappy,
hose are the similar plans-- invite friends, kids and kids parents. Older s says he doesnt have too many friends still in town. I told him all he had to do was stand there with his hand out 
However,til he makes his travel plans I cant do anything.</p>
<p>I’ve got an idea-- catering by SA! Mafool’s baked gouda, LIMOMOF2’s chocolate bread , and lots of peanuts, with shells on the floor. And bourbon… lots of bourbon.</p>
<p>jym,
We did a triple (yes, all 3! #1-college class of 2006 finished 2 degrees dated 1/2007, #2 college class of 2007, #3 HS class of 2007) graduation party last summer.
Our house is just not big enough so we rented an historic home in a park in our county, had it catered, and a tent and set up tables inside and out. Beverages and appetizers were served on the porch, hot food line was indoors, later dessert was back out on the porch.</p>
<p>We had family, friends, friends of the family and the kids’ friends. Our party was mid-July and therefore did not conflict with any one else’s festivities.
It was about 7 weeks after #2’s graduation and all those college kids made the effort to come from far and wide for their ‘reunion’.
Son made a music mix and we set up an i-Pod to an amp.</p>
<p>what fun, mominva! Now, those are memories to cherish.</p>
<p>wow mominva! You are hired to organize our graduation party!</p>