Lady Kate Graduates
Posted By AmyD. on June 3, 2009
Good grief, she’s disappeared again. Well, unless you happen to be a friend on Facebook. I’m on there… add me. I’m hopelessly addicted it seems. As if I needed another addiction online, or something else to cement my current online addiction! Potato, po-tah-tah.
A lovely combination of writer’s block and summer fever accompanied by numerous end of the school year things and loose ends to tie up have had me mostly away from my computer. You know, where “fun” is concerned vs. “work” which isn’t as much fun, obviously.
It’s official… I am now the proud owner of two high school students.
Kate graduated from the 8th grade last Friday. In a really cool turn of events the graduation was held on the football field of Ethan’s (and Kate’s soon-to-be) high school. It was very bright and very warm but I’m thrilled to say she didn’t twist her ankle or break her leg walking in some incredibly tall heels!
The shoes were awesome.
I’m sure all over the web you are finding lovely, touching tributes written by teary eyed mothers and explosively proud dads. I’m teary eyed and proud certainly, you see, Kate wore those shoes with what was probably a broken toe. The day before graduation in some sort of “Oh MY GOD, IT’S ALMOST OVER!!!!” daze, Kate stumbled out of bed and promptly racked her toe on the bed frame. She IS her mother’s daughter, I’ll spare you the pics to prove my point. Suffice it to say that I did roughly the same thing with the coffee table just a few weeks ago.
The bigger point is that she stuffed that black and purple little piggie into those stilts shoes and she marched across that stage (and around the field, twice!) like it was nobody’s business!
Proud, just does not describe it!
And, of course, the whole family was there:
(Please ignore the slightly obese woman in the orange shirt. Shut up, I know, I’m back on a diet and exercise and all that sort of nastiness that I would prefer not to talk about!)
The good news is that we all survived graduation and the slumber party to celebrate it as well!
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Her toe was busted too?! Holy cow, batman. I’d like to extend a “congratulations, Kate!” for graduating and a chest-bump (and I’ve NEVER delivered a chest-bump) for soldiering through it in those shoes. My saying with shoes is, “well, it’s too far from my head to kill me.”
I’m trying to get on board with Facebook. It’s like sensory overload there for me though.
Slightly obese? Shaddup. Our arms look just alike! And I’m not slightly obese. I’m padded for the Apocalypse. You are too. We are ready for famine. We will watch skinny bitches die.
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Ohhhh I am ready for the famine, too! Die Skinny Bitches, Die!!!!
Ahem. Anyway.
Congrats, Kate! She is so gorgeous and those shoes are HOT!
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congtratulations Kate! Daniel graduated from 8th grade, too.
And you look fine!! :pph: :pph:
J,
That’s so cool that they do a big graduation ceremony like that for 8th grade.
Congratulations, Kate!!!
I was amazed that Taylor’s school had a similar graduation ceremony for them as well! Here’s to making it through the high school years with a teenage girl :doh:
Oh yeah, I will be dieting and exercising and all that other icky stuff right along with you!!
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:yay: woo hoo Kate!