IMG: The Life of a Home Mom

It’s strange thinking about him moving on to the next grade, but it didn’t dawn on me until late last week that he was actually entering Jr. High. Yes, I knew he was going into the 7th but it had not occured to me. Growing up we have four to five different schools that seperated by age so it wasn’t from one to the next and bam high school. So instead of just looking at my son going into middle school I am jumping one step further and realizing in just two short years he’ll be in high school. Wow.

IMG: The life of a Home Mom

I remember the day I brought him home and daddy held him in his arms, or the first year of preschool where he had a little girlfriend, Makayla and the two were always together. Time sure does fly and I’m not sure I’m really ready for him to graduate, even if I’m proud of his accomplishments. It’s one of those things that we just want to hold on to as long as we can as parents.

IMG: The Life of a Home Mom

To my son:

Have a great graduation! No it may not be high school but you’ll be there soon enough.

Love, Mom

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Graduation Day

Their lineup includes:

~ Spring Celebration Carrot Cake
~ Savarin Cake with Vanilla-Grand Marnier Syrup
~ Lemon Bundt Cake with Berry Rhubarb Glaze
~ Jamie’s Coconut Cake
~ Have Your Own Cake and Eat It Too
~ Strawberry Shortcut Cake
~ Caramel Peach Upside-Down Cake.

I’ve got two birthdays coming up next week and I think I’m going to try the coconut cake and the carrot cake! What are your favorite celebration cakes?

[image: flickr]

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Celebration Cakes from Food Network

The end of all night studying, exams, yoga courses to fulfill those last 2 credits, the trek home for the holidays, lame professors whose would-be novels were used as doorstops…and mostly it is the end of loafing around.

But, it is also the beginning. It’s now time to get out there and show the world who you are and what you’ve got to offer. Time to get a J.O.B.! Get your resumes together, write a beautiful introductory letter, use your networking skills…and practice, practice, practice the answer to this interview question: “What do you want to do”?

When I graduated from University, the world was a very different place. There may be some readers who were still in Pampers or not even born…so you might not get a Pac Man reference. The U.S. was in the middle of a deep recession…if you’d just graduated, the pickings were so slim that bartending was considered a white collar job for me and many of my friends.

But today, with the Internet, the digital world, blogging (lol), globalization and a seemingly robust economy, opportunities are everywhere.

My advice to you, so that you do not end up wasting your shiney new diploma — is to figure out what you love and for which you have a passion. Those people who are ultra-successful got to be so because they are absolutely love doing what they do.

Also, I advise you to select a designated driver for all the parties you will be attending…you deserve to celebrate.

Congratulations! You are our future.

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Congratulations 2006 Graduates!