the first and the last...

so, today is my daughters last day of high school and it feels like.........already?

  i chose this buttercup picture, because it reminded me of her - a sunny, happy sort of flower.  that girl is always smiling and when people describe her they actually use the word "sunny".  also, if you notice the flower in the front seems to be pulling away from the rest of the bunch.  as she will be soon. 

 

this is her on her first day of school.  we have a little video clip where she is talking about how excited she is and how she was scared that she might fall asleep on the bus and miss her stop.  i no longer have a VCR to play it and i mean to have it converted to digital.  but really, that memory is deeply etched in my brain.  she's fallen asleep on the bus many times since then, as teenagers do that.  it doesn't worry her much anymore.

she's grown into such a beautiful young woman, blue hair and all.  i'm so very proud of her for all her hard work and accomplishments.  and most especially proud that she has grown into the sort of person i like to be around.

 

in august, she will be headed off to college.  just a few hours from home, but still...

  i think i may have to leave that post for another day.  graduation first.  the closing of one chapter and the opening of another.  so many possiblities...