My darling Stella graduates tonight from middle school....

[hester_prynne]

Next stop, high school. Wow. I'm on an all sappy and where does the time go jag....
going to her ceremony tonight. She's got a hot new dress for the dance that follows.
I'm so proud of her.
My heart is just plain full.....

H

[judih]

oh those mama tears.

my second eldest graduated from high school on monday night. Kibbutz style - parents brought food, buffet at the side. A stage up front. Our MC was the class comic.
Teachers did a dance a re-wrote the words to a popular song.

lots of hugs and kisses with every report card handed out. One cap that got tossed amongst the guitar players who lengthened the ceremony with their touch of thanks.

lots of time to think: what? grade 12's over? no, impossible. Yet there it was. Right out in front of me.

time is a mystery till the signs get up on stage and shake their booties. Ha!

what's a mother to do? shake along, hester. let's keep shakin.

[hester_prynne]

Indeed, shakin it is!
It was a fine ceremony. Stell played her trumpet with the band, there was slide show with great pictures, awards, and then the parents were all ushered out so the dance could begin......

I had a really great time. Fabulous, marvelous, bouncy, laffy surges galore. Maybe I should go out more. Heh.

My own mom never attended any of those ceremonies. Too busy, too much in her head. So of course there's a strong part of me that could easily talk myself out of going to them too.

Man, i'm so glad I went......

Congratulations to you as well, a mother of a graduating being.
It's a fine poignant moment indeed.
We are such lucky so and so's.....
H

[panta rhei]

another brand-new beginning for her --
how wonderful. how exciting!

and you, hest, feeling her heartbeat alongside yours.

(middle school to high school -- so what grade would that be? and what changes when you change schools?
my daughter'll be in 4th grade after the summer, which is the last year of elementary school. during that year, the decision (according to the pupil's marks) is made for the type of school to follow until graduation. it could either be the "hauptschule" until grade 9, which means the kid can become a worker afterwards. or it could be the "realschule", which ends after grade 10 and enables the child to work as an employee. or else, if the kid is clever and has really goos marks, s/he could go to the "gymnasium" and graduate after grade 12, and then be able to go to university afterwards.
big decision to make!)

judih - congratulations to a. what an important phase has ended for him now! wonder what might be following...

luck and love to him. and to stella. and to all those beginning the adventure of a new phase in their lives right now!

[Arcadia]

congratulations hester, judih and also panta!!!!!!! I always cry a little when the kids leave the school, specially if they were my pupils for more than one year...! (in our school is in seventh year, the first year of Basic Education 3).

[mousey1]

Did you do your best Stanley Kowalski yell?...

bet ya did

bet ya did

if only loudly inside

Proud moments...of this life is made!