Graduation Insanity
Two years ago, my oldest child graduated from high school. We bought her gown, got her to all the meetings/rehearsals, and planned the big beach party. Now, our second child is graduating from high school and suddenly it feels so busy, and I don't remember this feeling with my oldest. So what's the difference?
My son has been homeschooled the last 7 years, but he belongs to a private independent study program that is having a big ceremony for all its graduates this year, and there are a lot! He'll get the full cap and gown walk to the podium, where dh and I get the honor of giving him his diploma. (Public speaking? Maybe that has something to do with the feeling of being busy?) Later that day, we're having a party here at the house, more of an open house type of thing since there are so many other graduation parties occurring the same weekend. We've currently got 5-6 to go to, which seems like more than when dd graduated.
Maybe it doesn't help that we're also preparing for our big vacation, coming up the end of June/early July. Two weeks in the south, visiting family, a wedding, and all sorts of other fun stuff while we're back there. That's a week after our last graduation party, so we'll have some time to recuperate..oh, and we're also taking the younger two to Disney one aft/evening that week to celebrate the end of their school year, along with a coveted reservation at Blue Bayou that I'm still way too excited about. (We're annual passholders and since we frequently go on the spur of the moment, we never seem to get lucky enough to get those reservations. Finally!)
So what do you get a boy graduating from high school, when there's already cars and computers and fancy cellphones and an iTouch. And what to get everyone else? My head is spinning, too much shopping to do, especially when you add in the teachers' gifts. Any great ideas? I'm open!
Flag it:
