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Sometimes you have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down. In the new forty that is what I am doing – building my wings.

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Milestones…

May 28, 2017 Ms. C2 Comments

18 years ago, I attended my oldest child's high school graduation with my youngest child on my lap.  Sarah was just shy of 18 at the time and Cheyenne was eight-weeks old. I remember the moment with absolute clarity.  It was, in so many ways, both surreal and life affirming. I fully appreciated in that moment how [...]

Posted in Education, Family & ParentingTagged children, family, graduation, high school, milestones, time

There are no rewinds…

June 16, 2011 Ms. C2 Comments

Today my oldest child turned 30.  Tomorrow we will have a party to celebrate those 30 years.  I decided somewhat at the last hour (as in about an actual hour ago) that it would be nice to have a memory scrapbook for the party.  So that means in addition to gathering all the proper scrapbooking [...]

Posted in UncategorizedTagged 30th birthday, Aging, birthdays, melancholy, memories, milestones, Sarah

Milestones…

May 14, 2011 Ms. C1 Comment

Life's milestones...they start at birth and they keep going right up until you become a grandparent or great grandparent.  One of the major and most recognized milestones in a young person's life is graduation.  First it is kindergarten graduation filled with grins punctuated with missing teeth.  Then it is high school graduation filled with the [...]

Posted in UncategorizedTagged dr seuss, graduation, milestones, Oh the Places You'll Go!, students

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