<p>I think I got all cried out last year! I knew so many of the seniors last year that it seems like I cried at every function - knowing next year (this year!) would be the last for my S… last band concert, last marching band rehearsal, last band banquet, last… This year I have hardly cried at all!</p>
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Soccermom, thanks for giving me a laugh this morning about Grandpa and the rain. Too funny!</p>
<p>And many, many bigger thanks for your son’s service in Iraq. I will keep him in my prayers.</p>
<p>I thought I would ball my eyes out at my D’s (the first one) graduation a few weeks ago, but I didn’t shed a tear, and I didn’t see anyone else doing so either. She was under so much stress with AP tests and last minute projects from teachers (I got a chuckle out of her saying “no professor is going to treat us like THIS!”) that we were just glad it was over. My 2 kids are a year apart, so maybe the realization of my two kids being out of high school will hit me at next years graduation.</p>
<p>1sokkermom, one more voice here in heartfelt thanks for your son’s service and in praise of his gentlemanly conduct (and a hearty cheer that you’re counting down the weeks!). Young men and women like your son make me optimistic about our future. :)</p>
<p>1sokermom: Wanted to add another thank you to your son for his service to our country, congrats to your new graduate. And btw, I tear up at all graduations.</p>
<p>I have thought about this too since last year I was certain that I would be a foolish puddle yet was dry eyed. I think for me it was the fact that I tried very hard to honor the “lasts” all year long. I cried at all of those so that by the time graduation rolled around I felt relief, pride and a little dread at the fact that I would be up all night at the sober grad celebration 
Even more ironic due to the fact that as a teacher I have cried at every other graduation I have attended.</p>
<p>1sokkermom add me to the chorus!</p>
<p>Congrats to all of the 2010 parents and their wonderful kids!</p>
<p>Nope, I didn’t cry at HS graduation or at college graduation 4 years later. </p>
<p>I did cry (hard) after returning home from taking our only kid to his college far away. And I surprised myself last week when, after helping the same kid move to his new city for his new job and having been dropped off at the airport, I walked into the airport and burst into tears! I never saw it coming.</p>
<p>This reminds me of a report I heard on NPR this morning…because of the huge problems in our county…and the national averages…
something like 40% of blacks/latinos do not make it to complete HS and graduation and like 25% of students overall don’t make it to graduation…</p>
<p>I have already been tearing up with the whole “looking ahead” and knowing the day is coming…and this did remind me of what a great job our kids are doing…</p>
<p>I have alwayds felt like these pre school, elementary, middle school and high school grad things are a bit over the top…because this is the “minimum” of education we have come to expect…the story reminded me of how so many do not make the minimum…</p>
<p>Congrats to the Class of 2010</p>
<p>I’m going to be an absolute mess. No doubt about it.</p>
<p>I didn’t cry at my second son’s graduation, but I did cry at the Senior Mass (a Catholic high school). It hit me that this would be the last school Mass (after many, many years of these in elem and high school.).</p>
<p>I would choke up just thinking about graduation and missing him. I think I worked through it all beforehand–anticipatory grief–and was OK for the actual events.</p>
<p>For me it’s the ones that I hadn’t seen coming that do me in!</p>