<p>I have been lamenting that my older s’s graduation from college and younger s’s graduation from HS have been scheduled for the same morning (May 10, 2008). Yes, I know this is a year off, but each school’s calendars had been fixed for a long time, and I had accepted this bummer news. Many of you out there were very supportive, and offered great suggestions for how to deal with this (hubby would go to s’s college grad, I would stay here for HS son’s). I intended to get more internet savvy and watch older s’s graduation on a laptop at younger s’s graduation. Well, I JUST got news that our younger s’s HS has made a TENTATIVE change in the spring schedule next year, and if this change becomes permanent, graduation will be ONE WEEK LATER (May 17), allowing us to attend BOTH graduations! Please, let it be so!! I just checked our big state U’s grad date (also May 10, '08), which would have conflicted with the original HS grad date, so perhaps this is why the HS moved its grad. date back a week. No sure, but who cares!! I suppose this could unfortunately throw off someone else’s grad schedules, and if this is true I would truly feel badly for whoever this might affect. But right now I am doing the HAPPY DANCE! WAHOO!!!</p>
<p>Oh, jym, I KNOW how much this has been on your mind, and I REALLY, REALLY hope that the change comes through and that you’re able to attend both graduations!!! Fingers majorly crossed!!! :)</p>
<p>Thanks, berurah!! I don’t know when the calendar will be finalized, so I am being cautiously optimistic. I really want to be able to attend both. I know graduation ceremonies are not that big a deal for some, but it is a big deal for my guys! This would be a wonderful graduation present!</p>
<p>Just so’s ya know you’re not alone, we’ll be facing this the following year, as my third will graduate from h.s. and my oldest will graduate from Duke! <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>ohh nooo berurah :eek: You’ll be in the same boat in a few yrs? The same graduation day? Ohhhhh I am sorry… Bummer.</p>
<p>jym~</p>
<p>I don’t have our schedules just yet, but trust me, with OUR luck, I’m sure this won’t play out well! :eek:</p>
<p>keep the faith, berurah-- things seem to work out… BTW, how’s karma doing?</p>
<p>Hey jym, thanks for asking about Miss Karma! No one has called for her yet, so she’s still ours as of now! She’s <em>SO</em> precious, just an absolute doll, though she’s still terrorizing our kitty cats a bit <em>sigh</em>. But, they’ve all discovered a bunch of new hiding places, so they pretty much manage to stay out of her way! She didn’t eat a lot at first…I think she was pretty homesick, but now, she’s eating like a pro and has adjusted to our home very nicely, including her brother and sister doggies! We absolutely adore her!!! :)</p>
<p>I hope you’re right that this will all work out in two years! :eek:</p>
<p>~b.</p>
<p>Hey berurah-
I just had a great idea for your s’s bday present (I know we are blending a gazillion threads here, and I apologize for any confusion to the readers)
Why don’t you send a video of Karma to your son? I know how hard it must have been for him to be away at school during the passing of Patches. Perhaps a wonderful video of the newfound doggie with the family will cheer him up.
I guess the “happy” component brings it back on topic to this thread :)</p>
<p>jym26: welcome to Houston heat…</p>
<p>Hi Simba-
So far I’ve been lucky-- every trip to Houston (except one) has had beautiful, tepid dry weather! However, graduation will probably be a giant sauna!</p>
<p>…keeping fingers and toes crossed for you jym!!! Now I know I’m not the only one looking ahead, and sometimes far ahead on potential calamities. My boys will be having duel graduations in 2010 (lol, I know, that’s really in the future). Their graduations are about a month apart, so right now I’m feeling pretty confident that there won’t be any conflicts.</p>
<p>And best of luck to you berurah, I know you wouldn’t want to miss out on those important milestones either!!!</p>
<p>I am hoping for you to be able to attend graduations!</p>
<p>jymom:</p>
<p>Keeping my fingers crossed things work out as you hope!</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone! I am not sure who is officially in charge of the HS calendar, so I don’t know who to ask if this is for sure. I guess i’ll just have to keeo cking their website. We have a mtg with the college counselor coming up in a few weeks. I’ll try to remember to ask then who is the official keeper of the calendar. Right now I am just enjoying the hopeful possibility, and thinking about making hotel reservations for the grad in Tx. Just how far in advance do people really do that??</p>
<p>Crossing my fingers for you jym. You know our big conflict was with the start of school. Our son started 8th grade on the same day as the first day of our d’s orientation at UNC-CH. We spent a week up in Chapel Hill (since it was also parent orientation) and missed the 8th grade curriculum meeting and a couple of ‘back to school’ functions. Not nearly as huge a deal as missing a graduation, but our son did want to go with us to see his sister’s college…and instead had to stay at home with the grandparents. He has yet to visit Chapel Hill; but I’m considering taking him out of school when we travel there to get her moved back home for the summer.</p>
<p>Btw…I’m so glad our d will get her undergraduate degree one year before our son will graduate high school. Thank goodness for that one year gap. Even if the graduation dates did not fall on the same day, it is a lot details to handle with senior prom, h.s. graduation, last minute college admissions details for the h.s. senior and then a college graduation all falling in the same two month time period. Whew…glad it’s not me! :)</p>
<p>ldmom06,
We ran into a similar problem when older s. first left for college. He was to start O-week on a Sunday morning. We were originally going to fly out on Fri during the day sometime, but younger s. had a MANDATORY freshman orientation meeting Fri at his HS (where classes officially started the following Monday). I politely asked about this “mandatory” meeting, since we were planning to take younger s with us to get older s settled into college (and we have no family here in town to leave him with and we live 30 miles from the private school so getting him to the “mandatory” meeting would not have been easy). Well, they were inflexible-- it was A MANDATORY MEETING – tough nougies. Get him there. Too bad older s (who had just graduated from his HS) had to get to college. Deal with it. Whoa. That was intense. Good news is, the HS happens to be down near the airport, so we booked an early evening flight, picked up younger s from school and off we went. It worked out (and yes, we could have flown in on Sat but we wanted to have a day for shopping for a dorm fridge, computer printer and such), but had we wanted to drive him to school (13 hrs away) it wouldn’t have worked, especiallay with younger s’s school starting that following Monday. </p>
<p>With the graduations now a week apart, it will still be an interesting juggle, as we are also dealing with AP and SATII exams (I’d better check the dates, come to think of it…)</p>
<p>Looking forward to a BIG combined graduation party, if older s is coming home after college. Who knows…</p>
<p>JYMmom, </p>
<p>I hope the schedule change happens for you. My middle daughter and youngest daughter graduated the same day at the exact same time last May. My husband, his parents and my sister went to the college graduation. My mom and I went to the high school graduation. Both kids still feel bad that everyone couldn’t be present on their special day. We all felt very disconnected. I actually lobbied the high school to change their date/time/anything! but to no avail. Best of luck to you!</p>
<p>C.</p>
<p>Oh, jordansmom, that so sad. Thats exactly what I feared, and you lived it. Bummer. In our case, we have no family down here, and neither grandfather is well enough to travel. I actually considered trying to plead to the powers that be at our HS, but suspected (knew) it’d fall on deaf ears. So I just came here to CC to get the support of those who truly understand…
But, you seem to have survived, and although it is a bummer, it sounds like everyone understood and accepted the juggling act that was necessary. Glad you made it through. You sound like you have a great family.</p>