In case you missed it, my baby, my sweet little boy, who we just brought home from the hospital yesterday!, graduated from high school at the end of May.  What!  How is this possible?  I literally just brought him home from the hospital.  Or I wish.  I truly would love to go back and live the past 18 years over.  He.is.the.best.  I mean it.  He is the best kid you could ask for.  Except for his sister, and she’s the best too.

I didn’t even cry!!  Can you believe it?  I think it has something to do with the fact that he’s staying at home for the next two years and going to our local community college for his first two years of college life.  Firstly, we didn’t win the lottery like I expected and secondly, he’s a great kid like that.  He’s awesome.

Two hundred and thirty three of the graduates actually walked across the stage.  Some of them had already graduated and gone on to their lives.   I think in his graduating class, there were about 330 of them.  My graduating class had exactly 78 people in it.  Major difference.

The first difference was that he only received 7 tickets to graduation.  That meant that both sets of grandparents, me and Denton and his baby sister were literally the only people who were able to go to his graduation.  When I graduated anyone could attend.  We actually had our graduation ceremony on the football field and all of the parents and friends sat in the stands.  It was awesome!

His graduation ceremony was held in the armory at the local community college here in our tiny town, because their high school auditorium wasn’t large enough to hold everyone.  Well, let me tell you Bob.  The local armory wasn’t large enough either.  I was told that they always give out extra tickets because they assume that everyone will.not.show.up.  But they did this year.  Denton and I guestimated counted and we figured up that there were around 1500 to 1700 people inside this building.  The local police were trying to seat people where there WERE NO MORE seats, because people were literally standing 8 and 9 people deep at the doors.  It was a madhouse.  And then the air conditioning shut off.  1,700 hundred people inside a building with no air.  It was HOT people. The Dean actually threw his multiple page speech he had prepared up in the air because he said it was too hot and we weren’t there to hear him talk, we were there to see our kids walk across that stage.  It was pretty awesome!

Outside on the college campus was one of these trees.  My In-laws asked me what it was and I actually don’t know.  Do you?  I thought it looked like a dogwood type of tree, but our dogwoods bloomed in March and early April.  This was blooming at the end of May.  Anyone know what it is?

Thanks for letting me share!