Today's the Day!

Today's the day! May 21, 2020.

The original Graduation Day. We made it!

David finished his senior year of high school at home, online. No prom (he wasn't going to go anyway and is actually happy about a refund coming for the ticket). No Senior Breakfast or Senior Activity Day. No one even signed his yearbook.

Instead he slept late every day. Rode bike a lot. Explored nature. Got to enjoy a cup of coffee whenever he wanted. Watched a lot of his favorite TV shows and movies. Ate a lot of McDonald's cheeseburgers. Went out for curbside iced coffee drinks and ice cream with Mom at least once or twice a week on our bikes. Worked with his dad a bunch out in the driveway, tinkering around with this and that. Got spoiled with gifts and treats from the Adopt a Senior program. And then found he had to ride bike more to work off all the junk food he's been eating. Lol.

Is he disappointed in the way things turned out? Not a bit.
If he is, he sure doesn't show it. I think he's thankful and appreciates the gift of the last nine weeks of school, as am I. There's a lot that was lost, but we found so many gifts along the way. Mostly, the gift of time to just slow down and relax.

Graduation plans have changed yet again, so we'll see if the latest plan actually happens. Keeping our fingers crossed. Truthfully, that boy has already checked out of high school and couldn't care less about a graduation ceremony. It was a fight to get him to just put the cap and gown on for 5 minutes to take a few pictures, pictures that made him feel incredibly uncomfortable. I had to promise I would not put them on Facebook, but hey, I didn't make any promises about my blog!

I watched the virtual Senior Award's Ceremony alone because he just didn't care, but I took pictures of the awards he got so at least I have them as a memory.  Since Mike was off work yesterday, we decorated the porch and ordered from his favorite restaurant to celebrate as a family. Perhaps we'll have a drive-by celebration after his actual graduation, but he's been saying all year that he didn't want any kind of party or anything, so it looks like he's gotten his wish. This mom is going to find a quiet way to celebrate him, though.

He's ready to leave public school behind him, and I'm so excited for him to attend such a fabulous Christian university this fall. Having attended two Christian colleges myself, I can't say enough about the impact that a solid Christian education can have on a person at such a critical age. DBU, here he comes!

Moving on.

(This was a few years ago at one of the ponds at DBU, 

but it was a fitting picture to end this post.)

Here's a slideshow of many memorable events of David's life in no particular order. 

I planned to play it at the Graduation party he doesn't want to have, that we can't have for awhile, anyway.