So I only got choked up a little bit! Anna did great, I’m so proud of her. It was held at NRG Stadium, which is right next to the astrodome. I was exhausted afterwards.
I must say, I would not want to stand up in front of thousands of people and recite 600-700 full names of people. I’d be afraid to mispronounce.
I thought back to the “2007 expecting clubs” on the old IVillage message boards. Does anyone here remember IVillage? There were “expecting clubs” for every month. I used to lurk the ones for May and July due dates too, but not post in them. I remembered when everyone announced the names of their babies on there and wondered how many of the graduates I was seeing walking across the stage had moms who posted in those expecting clubs.
On another note, my coworker bought Minecraft swim shorts for her grandson and asked me to take them in about a half an inch on each side for her. She said she’d “pay me”, but I’m not going to let her. I honestly had a lot of anxiety about this. I make whole ass quilts, but doing an alteration that’s super simple for someone else made me think I would do something wrong. It honestly took no more than five minutes. Yes I pinned the waistband too. I did reinforcement stitches on each side as well. It’s not stretchy fabric, so a zigzag stitch wasn’t necessary. Even the lining was not stretchy. What do you think, did I do ok?
When Youngest Son graduated from college he had to write a phonetic pronunciation of his name and give it to someone right before he walked across the stage.
ReplyDeleteAnna looks so happy. Congrats to her.
ReplyDeleteNice of you to do the alterations. Congrats to your daughter.
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