Milestone days, for example, transitioning your baby from a bottle to spoon feeding or potty training have passed. Kindergarten, check. Elementary school and junior high, check. High school graduation, check. Educating your daughter to use a big round brush to style her hair without getting it caught in her hair (and subsequently chopping the hair off — after peanut butter and baby oil attempts to loosen the brush fail). Okay, maybe that one never happens.
You’re now sitting in uncomfortable flimsy white folding chairs, in a heavy dew (in May), amongst a group of people you’ve never seen before or will see again, two hours before the procession begins.
And then half an hour late, a recording of Pomp and Circumstance plays , and a wave of soon-to-be-matriculated long black gowns flow into the university quad.
Proudly, one more child officially is self-sufficient. (That’s a bit premature; transitioning from student to unemployed does not automatically make one self-sufficient.)
Congratulations, Megan, graduate of class of 2011. And to Kelly and Sandie, proud parents.
Love, Aunt Penny
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Sweet tribute to your niece. I bet your an awesome aunt!
Love the hairbrush mention. That’s something I could never do. I was once called to the elementary school to rescue my daughter who had gotten a round brush so entangled in her hair after recess that the principal thought it best that I come to take my humiliated baby home. After they photographed her, that is. Luckily she was a good sport about it.