High School Here She Comes
Yesterday, I got to tick one more off the GRADUATIONS I HAVE TO ATTEND list. Then I have 6 more to go : 3 for College, 2 for High-School and 1 for Elementary.
Shortly before we left home yesterday, I heard my husband and daughter Toni intent on a father-daughter talk. 'High school is 4 years of goofing-off, Toni, you better be ready for it'. You see, I'm used to my husband talking in his cryptic manner so I just took that to be a secret code between him and Toni. It ended up with Toni chuckling and giving her dad a hug which makes me think it was well taken. Good for her.
I notice that we tend to have quite a myopic view of milestones as they happen and only see them largely so much later after the day. Yesterday for instance, seemed to take the cake as the most boring and prolonged ceremony I've ever had to attend in recent years. I felt hot and fidgety, but also happy to count Toni as one of 167 elementary school graduates, these awkward little chicks whose median age is 13, all eager to wave their childhood years goodbye. It was a joy to watch them bask on their achievement, all happy and excitedly looking forward to high school and whatever it is they perceive it to be.
While the students with awards were repeatedly being called to stage (it seems that only 3 or 4 girls had exclusive monopoly on all these awards ), I was looking at their proud parents who had to go up several times on stage to pin the medals. As for me, I was glad I didn't have to leave my seat every too often. After all, to watch Toni having fun and being apparently well-liked by her peers should amount to some honor for her too. The thing with my kids is that they tend to be popular and are amply equipped with EQ, which will surely bear them out wherever they want to be in life.
The thing with milestones is that they leave a lot of photos in their aftermath. Yesterday was family photo-op day, with me, my husband and daughters present, also my mother-in-law, repeatedly posing with Toni donning her neon-green rubbered, toothy wire-braced smile, and milking the opportunity for all its worth. On the stage, with classmates, teachers, in the restaurant, surrounded by sushi, with us -- these pictures, all to tell the story of how it was, back when TONI GRADUATED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. And I'm gonna have some filing to do later.
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Shortly before we left home yesterday, I heard my husband and daughter Toni intent on a father-daughter talk. 'High school is 4 years of goofing-off, Toni, you better be ready for it'. You see, I'm used to my husband talking in his cryptic manner so I just took that to be a secret code between him and Toni. It ended up with Toni chuckling and giving her dad a hug which makes me think it was well taken. Good for her.
I notice that we tend to have quite a myopic view of milestones as they happen and only see them largely so much later after the day. Yesterday for instance, seemed to take the cake as the most boring and prolonged ceremony I've ever had to attend in recent years. I felt hot and fidgety, but also happy to count Toni as one of 167 elementary school graduates, these awkward little chicks whose median age is 13, all eager to wave their childhood years goodbye. It was a joy to watch them bask on their achievement, all happy and excitedly looking forward to high school and whatever it is they perceive it to be.
While the students with awards were repeatedly being called to stage (it seems that only 3 or 4 girls had exclusive monopoly on all these awards ), I was looking at their proud parents who had to go up several times on stage to pin the medals. As for me, I was glad I didn't have to leave my seat every too often. After all, to watch Toni having fun and being apparently well-liked by her peers should amount to some honor for her too. The thing with my kids is that they tend to be popular and are amply equipped with EQ, which will surely bear them out wherever they want to be in life.
The thing with milestones is that they leave a lot of photos in their aftermath. Yesterday was family photo-op day, with me, my husband and daughters present, also my mother-in-law, repeatedly posing with Toni donning her neon-green rubbered, toothy wire-braced smile, and milking the opportunity for all its worth. On the stage, with classmates, teachers, in the restaurant, surrounded by sushi, with us -- these pictures, all to tell the story of how it was, back when TONI GRADUATED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. And I'm gonna have some filing to do later.
Filed Under: Me & Mine
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