Whirlwind Weekend!

Well, It truely has been a whirlwind weekend....Family in town, Graduation Parties, Graduation for Amanda and airports!  Oh- not to mention very little sleep.  But when I did sleep, I did sleep well. unlike Phil my son, who is having trouble sleeping.  (Save that for another post) 

Anyway...Amanda graduated on Friday, her party was that night, of which I was very involved with, didn't plan for that, matter in fact what I thought i signed up for was to send out a few 100 donation letters and be done with it.....but nooooooo, it also included the purchasing power of 280 gifts (at the cost of $13,725.00) to be given away every minute at the party!  So needless to say and for you to guess, I am soooo happy that is done with!  All we need yet to do is send some thank you notes, write come comments in a notebook and say "Good-Bye RHS!"  But that is kinda sad in a way, I just graduated our last child from Richland High School, I have just completed my 6th year of being on the Executive Board of the PTSA and will finish it all up with a few notebooks to let the others that take on the task in the years to come know my thoughts on how it went!

Whirlwind, kinda like a Tornado more like it!  So much went wrong, with all the planning we did to make it "right" it didn't turn out that way... For instance, our garage door opener decided to stop working two days before, that is not such a big deal, but Bill and Phillip went to do the "suggested" quick install to find out nothing is quick but reading the side of the box.  Then one of the paddles on the inside of the dryer broke off! ya, just broke off!  So need to call a Maytag repair man to fix it, our Dryer is only 5 years old, so this is a bummer!  Then the weather, the Day of our BBQ, it was a whopping 60degrees, windy and cloudy! I don't know how many BBQ's you have been to, but that is fireplace weather not for BBQ's!  So everyone of our guests were in the house eating their BBQ food that we had planned. But that is okay, it went well anyway! 

Well this is just a little bit of what we did for Amanda's graduation....I will write more late....The best thoughts for the Whirlwind weekend....WEll simply they were these....

Phil Came Home!

Amanda Graduated!

We saw Family and they all were kind to each other!

We laughed!

We cried a little!

We got little sleep, but survived!

WE Loved one another alot!

We have memories, we will always cherrish!

one day and holding! Graduation is around the corner...

Amanda's graduation is tomorrow....WOW! Already? wasn't it just yesterday that she was heading off to preschool, 12 years of schooling and a soon to be diploma to account for all this learning.  As a mom that prides her self in teaching her children and would loved to have home schooled them, is very proud of the accompolishments of her children. Phil has just successfully finished his Jr. year of college and now Amanda is successfully finishing her highs school years!  What a time to be proud! 

Now the best is really yet to come, the best but a new road as well.  In the fall Bill and I will be empty nesters, well kinda, the nest isn't quite empty as we still have very needy pets, and then of course the kids are still in college and thus college bills and such still exist.  But I am very thankful for that!  I have loved being a stay at home mom, it has been my career...but I feel I am graduation as well!  I am moving on to different things, not just a stay at home mom anymore.  I have now the opportunity to do things I have thought of doing but have never really thought more than that! 

So tomorrow is graduation for Amanda and me....She will go on to NNU and study art, and I may get a job, or go to college or finish all those photo albums I thought I would have time to do while the kids were in school, but have put off for 12 years! Whew!

anyway, that is the scoop...now i need to do some cleaning.  We have family coming tonight and a party tomorrow.

Catch ya later!