First there was this:
Then this:
And suddenly, this!
It happens like this, life. Children grow, parents die, and I am for now in the middle. Elliot graduated last week, and it was a joyous occasion, in spite of the school principal going on and on and ON about how first of all it’s Cheerios and bedtime stories and then they’re teens and now it’s time to learn to let go, like he was trying to make us get sentimental and teary. I was ready to get up and slap the man, except that he was too far away. Because there were approximately a million people there, lots of proud parents and grandparents and bored siblings and extra people who like sitting through speeches about believing in yourself and going far in life and eating Cheerios blah blah blah. Seriously, graduation was very nice but there were about 500 graduating students and those bleachers were not comfortable. We were all supposed to give just one clap for each student, and overall we did, and you could tell where each student’s family was sitting.
Afterwards it took us ages to find him. There were a lot of people there! Eventually we did, and gathered the happy grad, his friends, Donn and I, and all of Donn’s family, who’d come out for the occasion. The only people missing were the twins, who had gone to find Elliot and had instead found lots of their other friends. I had a really hard time finding them again. Short and social is a bad combination in crowds.
I have been waiting ages to post this, for Donn to remember to email me the first 2 pics, which were on his computer not mine. I need him to email me one more thing, so I’m going to post this and write about the grad party in another post. Keeping it short and sweet, that’s me (for a change…).
6 comments
June 22, 2013 at 1:04 pm
suburbancorrespondent
I despise long-winded graduation speakers (especially those with nothing new to say)!
June 25, 2013 at 7:55 pm
Leslie Gould
What great photos! Congrats, Elliot!
June 25, 2013 at 9:50 pm
Mary Ostyn (Owlhaven)
You[re right– completely adorable. I like the little-guy pix as much as the baby pix, truthfully. Those curls!
Mary
June 25, 2013 at 10:33 pm
Susan
I have become a lazy lurky blog reader.
He is adorable – or as the hip ones say: Tots Adorbs. 🙂
Both baby and school pics are so sweet. It goes by so fast, doesn’t it? All 3 of my “kids” are college grads and are living on their own in the big world (2 are married). These milestones are so meaningful; great times to reflect on how much has happened and to enjoy sweet memories.
God bless you all.
June 26, 2013 at 5:15 am
Kit
Very gorgeous baby pic! And cute little boy too – it goes so quickly – my oldest is only three years away from this and time just seems to go faster.
June 26, 2013 at 6:12 am
gretchen from lifenut
Congrats to all of you! The pictures are great. Good luck to him.
And I’m going to make a very bold prediction: You will hear the exact same speech in two years.