Graduation Day

My son is graduating today. My youngest son graduated on Tuesday. Well, Tuesday was actually a moving up day but today is a real end of the line graduation. Surprisingly on Tuesday I was an emotional mess as I watched my little boy turn from a 5th grader into a 6th grade boy before my eyes. Maybe it was the slide show that chronicled his and his friends lives from Kindergarten throughout elementary. He grew from baby to young boy before my eyes. I was teary right from the moment the first slide came on and wept throughout the ceremony as my husband and kids smiled with delight at Mom's emotional breakdown.
Today strangely enough I am not feeling the same emotion I felt on Tuesday. I tried to examine the reason and though it is yet to be seen as to whether I will weep again as my child walks up to get his diploma, I sense that I am more excited than sad today. On Tuesday I felt that my baby was now a young boy and the loss of his "babyhood" upset me. Today I am proud and excited that my son is a young man about to embark on what I consider the most exciting time of his life.
My oldest will be entering college in the fall and I am thrilled for him as he leaves the confines of High School and ventures out to explore the horizons of higher education. Gone are the clicks and hopefully the peer pressure so insidious in our public high schools. I have always felt that Colleges are more accepting of the individual and encourage such individuality as opposed to the cookie cutter mentality of public high schools. This has been a very exciting week for our household and households throughout Long Island. I wish the very best to the Class of 2008....

PS..6/27/08....I wept at the High School gradution also!!!