Ordered! Thanks! It can be a little part of her grad present 
Son just finished the last of his academic testing so school is just about a wrap. Crazy! He still has sports for the next few weeks and then maybe going to Nationals in mid June. There are a few Senior events planned, an awards night, a team banquet etc but itâs going to be pretty fun and relaxing!! Heâs been enjoying the last few weeks, literally attending every possible event and function he can at the HS. Heâs had a pretty enjoyable 4 years I think, and heâll look back fondly of his time spent there. With a lot of work and effort he ended up doing pretty darn good for himself. I think he appreciates that now.
Every single night next week is taken up by some sort of awards or ceremony. Yikes.
@mathmomvt Congratulations on the excellent choice of college!
Congratulations also to all parents whose kids are graduating. Graduation here is on June 2nd, but we have to survive Prom this Saturday first. Luckily, my D and her friends have decided to spend the night at a friendâs house here, instead of driving to some Michigan lake-house, or a Chicago hotel. They will then all go to a Sunday brunch together the next day.
@SJ2727 @milgymfam We all are Dr Who fans here, and my D has been a huge fan since I introduced her to it when she was 11. When my wife was in UK for a sabbatical in 2013, we visited her, and went to the BBC studios in Wales. They werenât filming that day, so we visited the set of the TARDIS. My D actually cosplayed as a female version of the 9th Doctor at the 2014 Chicago Comicon, and her best friend went as Rose Tyler.
Graduation is June 7 here, and thatâs early for us! DS is still technically in school until the 31st, but between AP exams, chorus performances, field trips, etc. he is basically never in class anymore.
Graduation is tomorrow night. My mother and aunt got into town today. We have a party tonight, D gets her hair cut tomorrow at 11 then we have to head up to the venue around 4. I canât believe it is here!!
My D19 graduates next Saturday, May 25. Academically, today was the last day for anything graded to be turned in, so Iâm not sure what they will do in class next week. There have been a lot of Senior events this weekâProm was Saturday, last night was Senior Sunset, and today was Senior Barbeque (lunch) and Senior Pep Rally where all the younger grades come watch the Seniors each walk across the stage with a slide projected behind them showing all of the schools that student was accepted to, the student yells out where they chose to attend, and everyone cheers. My D19 also received a special award at the Pep Rally from the State Board of Education member for our area for being chosen as that board memberâs Student Hero, for contributions to her school and community. It was a huge honorâ15 seniors chosen for the whole State of Texas. I am so proud of my girl. Like so many of you, I canât believe this is almost over. I am going to miss her so much when she leaves for Stanford in the Fall !!!
So apparently D19 got the invitation to the senior awards ceremony some days back but didnât say anything to us (and wasnât planning on going) because she didnât think it was a big deal ? then talking to her friends and finally realizing that not a lot of people got invites⊠and that it is actually âa thingâ. Lol.
Senior prom tonight. Iâve spent the better part of the afternoon ironing S19s tuxedo shirt because he would rather wear that one than the one that came with the rental. I love him more than life itself, and will miss him next year, but I will not miss this kind of stuff.
Congratulations to everyone who graduated!
Our graduation is in a week. S19 is not going to prom, no date he says. S17 went to prom without a date. Oh boy. (Boys! I want grandchildren! at some point!)
S19 finished 4 AP exams but still has couple projects and finals. He did not go to the Cum Laude awards ceremony either. oh well.
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D just came back from prom, quite happy, but decided to spend the rest of the evening with a quieter, geekier group, and meet up with her friends tomorrow for brunch. No date, but went with a large group of single friends, and no drama was had.
She looked amazing, BTW.
PS. She can be intimidating, despite there being only 5â 3" of her, so she usually has to do the asking for dates, and there was nobody who she wanted to ask to prom.
@MWolf thatâs funny about the intimidating bit. My D20 is all of 5â2 and yet all of my D19s friends say sheâs the most intimidating girl theyâve ever met. Ha!
D19âs final track meet was yesterday. I donât think that fact will hit her until the end-of-the-year team banquet next week.
She medaled in the state finals and earned all-state honors in track for her main event. I felt bad for her best friend and teammate who medaled as a junior last year in discus, but didnât get past the semifinals this year at states. D19 felt the same way (feeling bad), but was also very happy her friend committed to a D1 school and will continue to throw competitively for the next 4 years.
D19 is part of arguably the best group of senior girls in the schoolâs history for track. They made history and accomplished things no other team from the school has every done.
Finals this week and then graduation next Sunday. Itâs all going so fast that weâre really behind on preparing for her grad reception.
We got the yearbook, and kiddoâs picture is not in the senior lineup. He missed picture day and he missed 2 makeup days. The second one he missed on purpose. His picture is scattered through the yearbook and his senior quote is among the quotes at the end so itâs not like heâs missing entirely, heâs just not in the lineup.
My husband is upset. Kiddo made this decision because he doesnât want his legal name in the yearbook, just his preferred name. The argument about this morphed into an argument about kiddo not ordering every single tassel, stole, cord and collar he is entitled to for his graduation ensemble. Kiddo just wants the ones he feels are important, he doesnât care about overloading his outfit.
Ugh. I should just go back to bed.
Still waiting for D to return from prom last nightâbut from the pics and texts that I have received it seems to have been a blast! This one was much more relaxed for her than last year and it showed (we only have junior prom here but since she is dating a junior so she was back last night for round 2âthey have been dating for the past two years so this is their second prom together). The after party seems to have been a real hitâthe parents rented a mechanical bull and had it cateredâall for 10 kids!
Last week of classes is this week. Then 1 final next Wednesday and graduation on 6/9. Wishing for time to slow down just a little bit these next few weeks.
@ninakatarina sorry for all the family drama surrounding your kiddoâs yearbook and graduation ensemble. Sounds like your kiddo knows what he wants, and thatâs wonderful. But at some point itâs kind to acknowledge familyâs needs too. (We âmadeâ both of our older kids attend their âboringâ college graduations for us.)
For what itâs worth, my advice to your kiddo would have been to stick to his guns over the yearbook (for which it seems he had good reason) but get the tassels to make Dad happy/proud. The yearbook is âforeverâ but the tassels are basically just for the day, and he could always ask to have some photos taken with just the combination he prefers to have for himself. My 2 cents, worth what you paid for it 
Welp. Our HS has made regional news for all the wrong reasons. Again.
@ninakatarina Thatâs really frustrating if he asked to use his preferred name in the yearbook and it was not permitted. Why wouldnât the school support his preference for something like that?
S19 starts an internship at his elementary school tomorrow. He is doing . . . um, something with the strings teacher? Itâs a bit fuzzy. Hopefully, they will find something for him to do. He seems pretty clueless about whatâs expected. (They turned the seniors loose to find their own opportunity and apparently didnât give much in terms of guidelines - Im honestly surprised that he chose this over finals, which would have been a few half days this week instead of a 35 hour workweek!)
@MWolf umâŠbeen there. Hope all blows over quickly.
Three weeks from tomorrow is graduation day! D19 has some final exams and projects to get done in the next two weeks. She is also working fairly long hours (close to 30 hours/week) at her part-time job. She received an outside local scholarship and will be presenting at the organizationâs annual banquet on June 1. I think she is done with the high school crowd and is very much looking forward to starting anew at college.