Its on to Junior High!

Graduation

Last night was Dominic's High School Graduation.

Wow.

He is such an awesome kid and I am so proud of him! I can't believe he will be going off to college, its crazy to think how fast it has all gone by.

Last week was the Awards Ceremony. He received the following:

* Top 10% of the Class of 2009
* Beloit College Eaton Scholarship
* American University Dean's Scholarship
* Northern Arizona University President's Scholarship
* Arizona Board of Regents High Honors Tuition Scholarship
* New York University Global Liberal Studies Program Scholarship

That's right, the boy can now be referred to as, Mr. Smarty Pants!

Here he is with his dad and Julie

I will be forever grateful for the amazing job that has gone into parenting him.

Thank You.

Austin was my "date" for the awards ceremony, as Bill was out of town.

He was rewarded with a cookie.

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SO MUCH has been going on the last few weeks.

It has been CRAZY BUSY.

I will do a "run-down" post soon, hopefully.

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This was a poem that was read last night at the graduation.

I thought it was awesome and I needed to hear it.

So I'll leave you with this:


DO GOOD ANYWAY...

"In the Final Analysis"

by Mother Teresa

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered...
forgive them anyway

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives...
be kind anyway

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies...
succeed anyway

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you...
be honest and frank anyway

What you may spend years building, someone may destroy overnight...
build anyway

If you find serenity and happiness, people may be jealous...
be happy anyway

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow...
do good anyway

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough...
give the world the best you have anyway

You see, in the final analysis, it's all between you and God...
it was never between you and them anyway

Swine. Flu.

If I hear these words one more time in the next 15 minutes, I WILL scream!!!!

I'm sure its serious, but OMG the media latches on to something and does not let go.

Since I have no memory, and this IS my blog, I like to use it to remember things I would otherwise forget within moments of it happening.

Like conversations I have with my kids.

OMG.

Some of them are hillarious.

Like the time I overheard Dominic & Doug talking about school cafeteria food (specifically, meatloaf). I had to go write it down verbatim so I wouldn't forget the details. To this day, that conversation ranks at the top of my "Best Conversations of ALL TIME" lists. Too. Funny.

Anyways...I digress.

Sunday morning I met up with Dominic for breakfast.

He recently went and had a "Prospective Student" visit with the college he is interested in attending.

He was telling me all about it and the things he did while he was there.

But a few of the "Bullet Points" for that conversation are these:

- EVERYONE in college is "bi".

- Because of the above, he thinks while attending college, you should be given a colored wristband so that you know who you can safely "flirt with" so as not to get yourself into a "awkward" situation, or offend someone.

- EVERYONE has facial hair. So he was contemplating how he would work this. He doesn't like sideburns, and he's not really feeling the "billy goat goatee". One of the guys that had one, was eating soup, and apparantly not all the soup ended up in his mouth. The goatee worked as kind of a catch all for his meals. So he's still trying to figure out how to work this in. Any ideas?

- EVERYONE is a protester.

All in all, it sounds like he had a good time. He is looking VERY forward to starting this next chapter of his life.

It should make for some VERY good conversations.