The Places You'll Go and the Things you will SEE!

Three graduations in the past three days - 1 8th grader - Brandon, and 2 High Schoolers - Cassidy and Amy!!  It has been a BUSY few days!  We enjoyed a party for all three today and the afternoon thundershower waited until we were all cleaned up and ready to go home.

One of the Moms bought THREE of the Dr. Suess books by the above title and we all wrote thoughts and good wishes in them for the three young people off to new places, new challenges.  I had forgotten in the past 25 years all the great lines in that book!!  A lot of wisdom.  If you have not read it, look it up.  Kathleen reminded me that I gave her that book when SHE graduated from High School.  And the places she has been and the things that she has seen!!  

GOOD FOOD, good friends and relatives, and no supper necessary.  I will always vote for NOT COOKING!  Just a cup of Sweet Dreams and this Grandma will be counting sheep - maybe 6 of them!!  It has been a lot of late nights, hugs and kisses and even tears!!

The speeches don't change a whole lot over the years and each of the High Schools had a young scholar heading for a military academy!  Pretty amazing for the small schools here in the foothills!!  Lots of AP classes adding up to GPA above 4.0 and even the three or four graduates from our corner of the county are heading off to the four points of the compass - Oregon, So Carolina, Virginia, and THE WORLD!  The three exchange students were heading home to Norway, Italy, and Sweden in last nights graduating class of 113.  The Sonora High School had more with 225 graduates and they too were off to amazing places.  

The Senior Project Expo the week before at Sonora High offered an amazing snapshot of the varied interests and talents in that Senior Class - several restorations of cars and pickups, transmissions replaced, a dog house built by a young lady that would work for several Dobermans!  But she built it with her own hands and learned to saw, hammer, drill and use a battery powered screwdriver!!  Guitars, a large drum, dresses, fund raisers for all manner of organizations - the band, the soccer team, veterans, rescued animals, the handicapped.  The principal said that over $94,000 had been raised by those senior project fund-raisers!!  AMAZING!!

The Country is going to be in even better shape when these young people become the leaders - the movers and shakers of our national economy and our world civilization.  Go Class of 2015 - you will accomplish MUCH!!