Proud Graduate

Christine Nicole Rightmyer and her daddy, Keith - graduation night, May 28, 2010

It is hard for me to believe I no longer have a child in high school - where did the years go? My baby - Christine - graduated this past Friday night, with High Honors. To say we are proud of her would be an understatement.

Christine will now have the summer off before packing up to head to Berea College this fall. In case you've forgotten, Christine was awarded a full four-year academic scholarship to Berea. I'm trying very hard not to think about her leaving us, but I am going to miss her so much.

On the grandbaby front - my first grandchild is due any day now. My middle daughter - Marie - has been having some irregular contractions, so I'm hopeful it will be very soon, for her sake. Her due date is June 6th.

At this point in my life, I am still grieving the loss of my mother last week, so my blog posts may be very spotty for the next few weeks/months. In case I don't post again soon, I hope everyone has a fun, healthy, happy summer.

God bless you all ...

Sunday Scribblings 141 - I Knew Instantly ...

Sunday Scribblings #141 - "I knew instantly..."

This prompt is inspired by some of you! Often in your comments you will say, "I knew instantly what I was going to write about." So now you have to write about that.

Finish this sentence and then keep on going: "I knew instantly..."

What in your life did you just KNOW?

I knew instantly it would be a disaster as soon as my daughter said it was happening. For eighteen months now, the school district has been working on a new 25 million dollar high school. Parents were told that the transition to the new school would be quick and painless - famous last words ...

The plan was to move into the new school while the kids were on fall break (the first two weeks in October), but, of course, the building wasn't completed. The next date for moving was two weeks before Thanksgiving break. Of course, this didn't happen either.

When my daughter said the scheduled date for moving was to be December 12th - today, this Friday - I was skeptical. My daughter was furious! Here they were in the middle of finals week for the end of the semester, and the kids were having to be orientated to a new school.

So, now they will have one week to get used to a brand-new school building, before being out of school for the two week Christmas holiday. Then the chaos of the first week will bleed into another chaos filled week, as the children will have forgotten were everything is and have to start all over again.

Oh, and did I mention the facts about the new school library? We were guaranteed the new school library would be twice as big as the current library. Reading parents of children who read were all ecstatic - more library room meant more books and research material. But alas, every time adjustments were made to the blueprint, the library would get smaller and smaller.

The new library has ended up the same size as the original library with no room for new books or the research material we were hoping for. But, by God, we have a world-class gymn for basketball games! Nice to know the school has their priorities straight.