Last night Justin had a friend over who ate dinner with us. We were talking about graduation and joking about not having the credits to walk. A comment was made that a friend who could have graduated mid term waited to the end of the year so they could walk with their class and then it wasn't all that exciting and as great as it was made out to be.
My comment to that was, "walking isn't for YOU.....it is for the parents!!"
We need to see that indeed you made it and our job is DONE.
We can take PRIDE in your accomplishment which is really OUR accomplishment because we didn't kill you through your hard headed, lazy, loud music, computer/video game playing, dirty-stinky room teenager stage and made you an educated adult that can now go out into society and you are no longer our responsibility! (at least in the criminal system)
This like so many things growing up is how we parents gage how we have performed over your last 18 years.
So PLEASE!!! For your mother, you better damn well be walking with your class come June 5th!!!! I need it for me!
My comment to that was, "walking isn't for YOU.....it is for the parents!!"
We need to see that indeed you made it and our job is DONE.
We can take PRIDE in your accomplishment which is really OUR accomplishment because we didn't kill you through your hard headed, lazy, loud music, computer/video game playing, dirty-stinky room teenager stage and made you an educated adult that can now go out into society and you are no longer our responsibility! (at least in the criminal system)
This like so many things growing up is how we parents gage how we have performed over your last 18 years.
So PLEASE!!! For your mother, you better damn well be walking with your class come June 5th!!!! I need it for me!
2 comments:
well said mom!
That's hilarious! No, "walking" isn't all it's cracked up to be. But I do agree, it's more for the parents. You're so poetic!
Stef
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