The Graduate!

At last, my baby has graduated from high school. If you have been picking and dropping your child to and from school, you'll understand the huge sigh of relief my husband and I expressed a few weeks before her graduation.

I remember my husband one night just before he fell asleep whispering "Oh I can't wait for her to graduate then I'll be able to sleep longer every morning." I burst out laughing knowing how stressful it had been.

Talking about stress, mine was worse. My daughter is a very active girl and participated in many extra curricular activities, namely TRi-M (the Honor society for Music), Scholastic Bowl, Mosaic, Chamber Choir and the like. I had to be picking her up on activity days, bring her home and then take her back in the evening or at night depending on whatever activity she was involved with.

The worse part is knowing she closes at 2.24 pm and whiles I'm halfway to the school, I receive a text "Mom, can you please come at 4?"

Hmm! So what do I do? Our home is far from the school and because I do not want to waste gas returning home and then having to go back, at times I'll just go to the Mall and whiles walking around whiling away the time, I shop against my best judgment and spend money on un-budgeted items!

Or at times, I would just go and park at the school, read, listen to the radio or just fall asleep. This happened during winter as well so I had my little red blanket at the back of the car and covered myself to keep warm.

What wouldn't a mother do for her child? But now, it's all over. The baby of the house is about to enter college and may be, just may be, my husband and I will be able to take the needed break from running her up and down to and from school.

But it was all worth it when we saw her as one the few out of 900 students wearing a gold cord, honoring her as an Indian Prairie Scholar (having a GPA over 3.8) and also a pink cord honoring her as a member of the Music Honor Society of Tri M, walking to go and receive her diploma as part of Class of 2010 from Waubonsie Valley High School; The Warriors!!! It was a great day!!!

Have you ever gone through such a thing? How did you feel? Just share your 'frustrations' with me and everyone.

Cheers!!!

Sophie is One month old today! Hurray!

My grandbaby Sophie is exactly one month old today. As I opened my eyes today at 6.30 am, my mind went back to that day in April when she made her debut into this world of ours and into our lives. I started thinking about how tired I had been on that day because I had hardly had a wink of sleep due to the excitement.

You can see her with her grandparents from her dad's side on the left and her grandparents from the mom's side on the right.

But look at her. Isn't she lovely hmm, do you remember Stevie Wonder's song?

She has really proved to be a spunky little gal like her grandmama and I believe we are going to have a very grand time when she and her Mama come to visit us here in Chicago next weekend. They are coming to attend the high school graduation ceremony of my last child.

Speaking about my last child, have you noticed how stressful it is to get your child into the university these days? Hm! She had to be coached to excel in her SAT and ACT tests. After this came the applications to the many schools who kept sending tons of materials to her to persuade her to choose their school. Well I kinda felt proud that among the schools were the Ivy League schools like Columbia, Yale and Brown. It was like a competition; all because my girl had scored very high marks in both the SAT and ACT tests! Whew!

Of course I didn't want my baby going off to school on the east coast because it is too far from home and I will not be able to visit whenever I missed her. So you know what, I prayed and the schools closer to home offered her more scholarship which we couldn't afford to reject. So, she will be going off to a school in the very next State where her older sister, Sophie's mom is an alumni. Infact, they can't wait to see her 'cos Sophie's mom did so well there and graduated from there with a Magna Cum Laude! Yes, man! She excelled and is now in medical school. I thank God for His merciful kindness to me. I always pray that He will continue to keep me and my family safe from the storms of this life.

Do you pray at all? If you don't then you are one of the few people on this earth without any problems but I won't go into it now; another time.

Cheers!