My senior year seems to be on a high-speed chase. It is like it wants to see if it can get there before I get all my tasks done. Which, speaking of the to-do list for graduation keeps getting shorter and shorter. As I cross off each pressing item from the list the reality of graduation becomes stronger. I find myself saying things "I guess we are really doing this!" or I will look at my mom and say "Can you believe we are actually here?" It has been an incredible journey and I think it is easy to look at graduation as the end of the road, not like the beginning. However, in reality, I am only seventeen years old. As people are fond of saying, "I have my whole life before me," Truly, I am excited for the adventures that lay ahead of me.
One of the to-do items I have accomplished is my ceremony invites. Mom and I were deliberating over how and what we were going to do for invites for the ceremony. Were we going to go traditional or do a photo invite? After much discussion and my non-interest in this particular detail, we decided to go traditional. It's not like I didn't want invites or that I was against the fancy invites. It was more I didn't care one way or the other. In the end, we picked out beautiful blue invites with the matching name cards. They were ordered and all was well. The invites arrived in a quick amount of time and I excitedly opened the box. I know what your thinking, here is the part in the story where they have messed up my order or I have someone else's invites. Sorry to disappoint, but the invites were perfect. There was just one thing that confused me. They had given me to envelopes per person. One set had a label wrapped around them saying DO NOT ADDRESS INSIDE ENVELOPE. I sat there pondering. Inside the envelope, what in the world was an inside envelope? Later, when I was talking with mom she tried to explain to me the point of an inside envelope and while I do understand what it is, I still don't understand why we need two. However, I will be using them both and proudly follow the tradition of many graduates before me and I will have invites with an outside and inside envelope. My poor mother, you should pray for her when I get married. Oh well, I do love my invites, it has given something for mom and me to laugh about and I now know something more about the world of invites.
At this point in my rambling post, I would like to give a shout out to my fellow graduates. They both have been amazing as we plan our graduation. The ideas the contribute are incredible and the work they are doing makes it go smoothly for everyone. We all are finishing classes, working with college info and making summer plans. I am excited about my graduation. It is going to be personal and I hope, a lovely tribute to the hard work we have all done the past twelve years. As well as an exciting start to our futures.
I am so proud of each of them. They are proof homeschooling works and I am honored to call them my friends. We have been through a lot together. I have known them both since fifth grade. Our friendships have taken many forms over the years, but here we are at the end of March staring down graduation together. We all are heading in different directions. We all have different dreams, plans, and ambitions. Yet, that's the amazing part. Our uniqueness is what is going to shine out in this world. The world is ours to explore and learn about. God has a plan for each of us and the cool part is, none of us knows what it is. One day we could have it all planned out and the next we could be on our way to Peru because that's how random, exciting and adventuresome life can be.
So, I guess that's kind of my pep talk to all graduates. Don't get bogged down in the final bits of high school. Life is amazing, it's a journey and it is exciting. In the overall picture whatever invites you hand out aren't going to matter. Whatever, you do with your summer before college isn't important. What is important is what you decide to make of it. Are you going to wish and have regrets? Hanging on to the shoulda, coulda, woulda? Or are you going to take a phrase from one the first sentences I said "Oops, that didn't work" because things aren't going to work, but what I keep learning is that they don't work for a reason and what happens after something doesn't work It better than what I originally planned.
Anyway, that's what I keep reminding myself. Hang in their graduates! Spring break is right around the corner. You guys rock! GO Class of 2017!!!!!!!!!
One of the to-do items I have accomplished is my ceremony invites. Mom and I were deliberating over how and what we were going to do for invites for the ceremony. Were we going to go traditional or do a photo invite? After much discussion and my non-interest in this particular detail, we decided to go traditional. It's not like I didn't want invites or that I was against the fancy invites. It was more I didn't care one way or the other. In the end, we picked out beautiful blue invites with the matching name cards. They were ordered and all was well. The invites arrived in a quick amount of time and I excitedly opened the box. I know what your thinking, here is the part in the story where they have messed up my order or I have someone else's invites. Sorry to disappoint, but the invites were perfect. There was just one thing that confused me. They had given me to envelopes per person. One set had a label wrapped around them saying DO NOT ADDRESS INSIDE ENVELOPE. I sat there pondering. Inside the envelope, what in the world was an inside envelope? Later, when I was talking with mom she tried to explain to me the point of an inside envelope and while I do understand what it is, I still don't understand why we need two. However, I will be using them both and proudly follow the tradition of many graduates before me and I will have invites with an outside and inside envelope. My poor mother, you should pray for her when I get married. Oh well, I do love my invites, it has given something for mom and me to laugh about and I now know something more about the world of invites.
At this point in my rambling post, I would like to give a shout out to my fellow graduates. They both have been amazing as we plan our graduation. The ideas the contribute are incredible and the work they are doing makes it go smoothly for everyone. We all are finishing classes, working with college info and making summer plans. I am excited about my graduation. It is going to be personal and I hope, a lovely tribute to the hard work we have all done the past twelve years. As well as an exciting start to our futures.
I am so proud of each of them. They are proof homeschooling works and I am honored to call them my friends. We have been through a lot together. I have known them both since fifth grade. Our friendships have taken many forms over the years, but here we are at the end of March staring down graduation together. We all are heading in different directions. We all have different dreams, plans, and ambitions. Yet, that's the amazing part. Our uniqueness is what is going to shine out in this world. The world is ours to explore and learn about. God has a plan for each of us and the cool part is, none of us knows what it is. One day we could have it all planned out and the next we could be on our way to Peru because that's how random, exciting and adventuresome life can be.
So, I guess that's kind of my pep talk to all graduates. Don't get bogged down in the final bits of high school. Life is amazing, it's a journey and it is exciting. In the overall picture whatever invites you hand out aren't going to matter. Whatever, you do with your summer before college isn't important. What is important is what you decide to make of it. Are you going to wish and have regrets? Hanging on to the shoulda, coulda, woulda? Or are you going to take a phrase from one the first sentences I said "Oops, that didn't work" because things aren't going to work, but what I keep learning is that they don't work for a reason and what happens after something doesn't work It better than what I originally planned.
Anyway, that's what I keep reminding myself. Hang in their graduates! Spring break is right around the corner. You guys rock! GO Class of 2017!!!!!!!!!
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