Graduation night

Please don't get me started!! Ours is next Thursday, but I just realized yesterday that he is finished!!!! No more classes to go to. I've been trying to tear up for the last two days.

denise....I can send you some Fed Exp...if you want...I have a case of my own...waiting for May 28th....that's our grad night.

mine is on senior day outing today..prom tomorrow...scholarship banquet Monday....

wait I think I'll need to keep the kleenex after all...

I remember thinking that my son's senior year of high school was like "One LONG Goodbye"....from the last "this" to the last "that" it seemed like I spent the entire year in tears. By the time graduation actually came, I think I was all cried out and more relieved and happy that the night finally came. To all you senior moms.....enjoy every moment, but remember.....the best is yet to come for your boys!

My son's was three years ago and it was like YESTERDAY!! He is now a SENIOR in college after finishing up a couple of days ago. But I'm with luvbb---I was all set with my box of kleenex that night, and nary a tear slid down my cheek. My son was soooo happy and soooo ready to move on---I was happy, too. But blink your eyes, and college graduation is just around the corner....

I know how you all feel and this thread has stirred feelings that I went through this time last year.

It all went by so fast....once baseball season approached last year, the senior year went by with the blink of an eye. My son's baseball team won the State Championship on a Friday night and graduated the following Friday night. It was a bittersweet time without a doubt...the happiness of the playoffs and a 1st ever State Championship for our school's baseball team and then graduation.

I was home alone tonight and it was one year ago tonight my son and his HS team won the State Championship....so I pulled out a DVD made by one of the baseball player's parents that highlighted the senior year baseball season (which was capped off by being State Champs)....it gave me chill bumps and made me cry and wish that for an instant that I could rewind and go back in time.

They grow up too fast so everyone enjoy them while they are still at home.

Ours was Saturday. I did not cry at all, there were too many funny things going on. Copeland's had buckets everywhere because of leaks in the ceiling. We laughed the entire time. The ceremony itself was funny. One of my son's dearest friends tripped and fell on the stairs as she left the stage. When she got up she waved to the audiences to let everyone know she was alright. It was definitely a show.

stringbean...at least you'll have a good story to tell in years to come...how funny...

I had to add this one Ladies:
When my oldest son "graduated from pre-school, he was handed his little diploma and walked to the front of the stage and took a big bow. It was so cute and unexpected, everyone applauded. We asked him later why he did it and he said that he "saw someone on t.v do it at the end of a play and they were on a stage too and I was on a stage so that's why."
Three years ago when he got his HS diploma he stepped out of line, walked to the front of the stage and took a big bow. He looked up and gave his mom a big smile! She was bawling like a baby!! (Okay, I'll admit it. I may have been a little misty myself....)

voicovr---

WAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

voicvr

I love it !!! Not only a great sense of humor, but a lot of confidense too. Wonderful.

I expected to shed a TON of tears three years ago when mine graduated but somehow I got through the night without crying.

Enjoy every moment - they came and go so quickly.

3 years ago, when mine graduated, we knew that it was going to be emotional. Having only one child, this would be our only graduation night.

In an effort to release some of the emotion, 3 of the families that were/are very close (two of them will be my son's family by marriage next year) decided to celebrate in our own fashion as we sent our young adults into the world ... after graduation, they went off to their "grad night" celebration and we had a parent party ... the cake read "Congratulations PARENTS" ... we ate and drank (yes, even some adult beverages) and reminisced and had a great old time ...

Took some of the sting out of the day for us ...