Busy day today: Finish off some tasks I have to do at the office until mid-morning (after stalling by posting on CC, can you tell I don’t really want to do any of them??), then pick up D19 and help her craft an email clarifying some stuff the transfer credit evaluation office at her college needs, then run her over to graduation rehearsal, then grab a quick lunch with her before dashing over to D23’s 8th-grade graduation (from a language-immersion K–8, so this is a cohort that’s been together for 9 years!), then grab an early dinner with the whole family plus my in-laws who just flew in, then D19’s graduation.
And D25’s home sick with a fever today, being tended to by my spouse, who’d already planned to take the day off and chill with her parents during the day. We’ll see if she feels well enough to handle the graduations—there were signs the fever was breaking as I left for work this morning.
It all happens at once, eh?
ETA: Also, post 18,000! We’ve been a busy bunch, haven’t we?
S is taking two IB exams today and then the final one tomorrow and then he’s done! Grad practice on Friday, graduation is Sunday and the party is Monday. I’m thankful graduation is inside as it’s supposed to be 94 on Sunday. I spent most of this past weekend baking and cooking for the party (and freezing things) and then will do more today. The family we are co-hosting with is in the middle of moving/building a house so I decided to make some of the decorations and make a lot of the food and just assign the other mom things she could order/buy. I’m happy to do it but it’s a lot. In the middle of all of it, D17 (who arrived home after sophomore year on Friday) wanted to go strawberry picking this morning, so we’ll have to make an end of school year celebratory pie sometime today!
S19 done with his IB exams today and is officially free for the summer.
He feels a bit weird because most of his friends are working during the summer, and he doesn’t. I felt that a few months of rest and pursuing his own interests will help him to be ready for the next four grueling years. Still some organized activity would be good, maybe taking another college class. A friend was thinking of running a STEM day camp which he could help teaching, but that’s probably not going to happen.
@ninakatarina your son is hilarious! Glad he turn something annoying into something fun.
We still have more than two weeks to go until the end. I don’t have many more “lasts” with D 19 since she gave up the sport she was good at over two years ago and doesn’t have any musical talents. My D19 just texted me to ask if I bought her a yearbook way back at the beginning of the school year. Of course I did, even though she probably protested. This girl is so done with HS, it does make it easier on me. She still has finals to take, even though teachers could just make it easier on the seniors by not doing a real final. And even though she only has five class periods, during finals she will have to sit in the auditorium all day while everybody else has testing through eight periods. That makes no sense whatsoever.
@jellybean5 We also don’t have many “lasts” as d19 stopped her ec/sport, Irish dance, about a year and a half ago. She did manage however to get additional merit aid and will earn credit for auditioning for and making the ID team so yay to that. We do have some firsts though. She was notified this morning that she will be receiving a scholarship at the scholarship awards night and they keep it mum about which one until the awards night. Then she came home to a letter saying she also will be receiving an award at the academic achievement night… .which award also kept under wraps until that night which is kind of fun! Kids still have about a month to go as graduation is June 26. All going by too quick!
Tomorrow is last day of school for Seniors. I hope son19 has a good day and enjoys one more final walk around the halls.
He has decided to give up the opportunity to try to reclaim the state championship in his favorite event, and instead enter into a relay event with a few other kids that have never advanced to the All State meet. He is good friends with these kids and they’ve put a lot of effort into the sport but just haven’t been able to advance. He wants to try to help them finally get there, and he thinks they might all qualify in a relay event. . He said they would be so thrilled to finally qualify. I was sort of surprised. But he said he’s already won once, and this would give him an opportunity to do something different and maybe help his friends out. He said he’ll have the opportunity to do his other event in college, and that this is his friends last hurrah. He wants them to go out on a high note, and I hope it works out for them. We’lll see!!
DS19 just received an email asking him to schedule a Skype interview because he has advanced to the interview portion for the Bonners Scholars program at CofC. I didn’t even realize he had submitted an application.
@RightCoaster good luck to your S and his teammates!! That happens quite a bit here that kids give up their individual events to do a relay at sectionals to try to advance to state. The race is always very exciting!! Report back and let us know how it goes!
Thank you @homerdog . I hope it doesn’t hail/wind like your son’s last meet, bummer!! Crazy weather. The last few meets we had insane wind and kind of chilly. Not good for PR’s or good times. Im hoping its warm and no wind the next few weeks.
Congrats on all the last days, proms and graduates! Big congrats @carolinamom2boys on the surprise interview!!
We had graduation this weekend. I was less emotional than I thought I would be, I think the slow ending to the year helped, in fact D still has to go back the last 2 days of the regular year to take her AICE Environmental exams so it almost feels like she is not quite done anyway!
Getting ready for graduation was hectic, trying to coordinate my own family, my mom & aunt who had come down from MA, trying to plan when and where to meet the friends for pictures and who would drive in which car, etc. As always everything worked out. D’s class had 850 graduates so it was a long night but they did a nice job keeping the speeches short and reading the names quickly. I know both the Va and Sal so that was nice. The Sal is a good friend of D’s and is going to the Naval Academy and the Val was a good friend back in elementary school and was one of my Girl Scouts for 5 years so I’m pretty sure I helped her get there. Her dream was to go to Yale and she got in early but did not get the money they needed. She is going to U Georgia as a Foundation Fellow, I don’t know all that it entails but apparently only 30 kids are in the program and they get treated like rock stars.
D was in the top 10% which meant they got to go up first and along with their names being read their college was announced as well. This was nice but I felt bad when the lady got to the first person not in the top 10% and kind of stumbled after saying, “and she will be attending, uh, ok let’s move on” - they really needed to have that planned better. Teachers took turns reading all 850 names and some made it entertaining, D’s dean read them as if he was in some kind of movie and D’s APUSH teacher (our favorite and our rec later water) read them as if he were announcing a wrestler or something.
After graduation the school does a lock in until 5am that D did not want to go to but since all of her friends went she changed her mind that day. She ended up having fun and winning an Xbox, the biggest prize of the night! I told her to take it to school because it would be a fun way to get people hanging out in her room, she said she’d rather sell it to the kid who offered her $200.
Our school does very few final things. Today was first day of finals. S19 only has two finals and took part one of Physics and Calculus; he finishes them off tomorrow morning. Seniors take finals during their regularly scheduled classes…so all of the kids finish at different days and times. There is no real send off. Next Wednesday is pick up gown and graduation rehearsal. Prom is Thursday night. Graduation on Sunday (June 2). Almost there.
Sounds like a great graduation day @momtogkc ! Congrats. No tears, great accomplishment. I don’t know how I’m going to feel this time honestly. Most of the time I am happy and excited for the future. but at others feel more nostalgic and it’s like the end of a ride for us.
Wow, busy week @SwimmingDad with prom and graduation in the same week! Son19 is totally done now, he just has a senior breakfast to go to and that’s when he gets his cap and gown.
He asked us if he could to a huge overnight sleepover party co-ed, and I’m trying to figure out a plan where I say no without actually having to say no. I’m in delay mode right now, hoping the party gets canceled.
D19 has prom on 6/21 and graduation on 6/25, so you all are preparing me for what the whirlwind will be like. Unfortunately, the Senior awards ceremony is tonight, but D can’t go. She was home from school with a severe migraine today, and the school rule is that if you’re not in school by 11:00, you can’t attend after school activities. They are very strict about it. I’m feeling disappointed, but D is too wiped out to care right now.
Oh, well. Better to miss this than prom or graduation! We don’t know what award she’s going to get, though—I hope they still give it to her.
It somehow makes things easier to hear that others are struggling with the sadness of the ending events, and even with the logistics! Getting my in-laws to stuff is always tricky due to age and mobility issues.
Thanks @RightCoaster and I forgot to say that was so sweet that your S decided to go for the group medal! I hope they have great weather, I know it has been iffy up there lately. My mom and aunt were laughing that they flew down here the now weekend you guys finally had sun!
@3SailAway Sorry about your D’s migraine, it stinks when schools cant be flexible on things like that. Yes, the logistics with the grandmother and aunt was hard, I felt like no matter what I did I was not spending enough time with them especially since they flew down just for this! Luckily they totally understood and just went with the flow.
Her dream was to go to Yale and she got in early but did not get the money they needed. She is going to U Georgia as a Foundation Fellow, I don’t know all that it entails but apparently only 30 kids are in the program and they get treated like rock stars.
