YAHOOO he did it!!!
 

Yep you guessed it.....My fantastic so Johnny graduated high school on Sunday.

I am so happy for him and I am so relieved. It was a rough year because Johnny acts as though he has not a care in the world.

He was way too layed back as far as school was concerned.

Every time I would go to a school conference all 7 of his teachers would start the conversation with.....John is such a nice boy buuuuuttttttt...................
LOL

Anyway, Sunday was a gorgeous day. The ceremony was held outside and I just beamed with pride.

As soon as it was over I grabbed his diploma (Had to make sure his name was on it):yahoo:

If It would have been physically possible, I would have been doing cartwheels all the way down the hill!!!!

2 Kids down.....One to go!!!!(Michael will be a freshman in August):yahoo::ROTFLMAO::partytime2::Dancing-Chilli::sing::Excited:

Congratulations, Beth!! I know the feeling of relief when you get a child through high school. I know you're so proud of him. :) What are his plans now?

Oh what a relief it is!
 

Wheeeeew! *wipe brow* I know the feeling. :p

Congratulations, Beth!!!

Yahooooooooooooo
 

Congrats Beth. Well done. I have one of those boys myself who will
be graduating on Friday.:) Mine missed 54 days of school this year due
to illness, so Im just happy he is graduating.

Any tips? I know I will need lots of kleenex.

Congrats again!:Dancing-Chilli:

Congrats Mom and congrats Johnny!

Yay! Way to go, Johnny!!!!!

I'll give you $20.00 to do cartwheels Bethie, but I get to video tape it! ;)

Congrats!! :Clever::Dancing-Chilli::winner_first_h4h:

[QUOTE=Bannet;287806]Yep you guessed it.....My fantastic so Johnny graduated high school on Sunday.

I am so happy for him and I am so relieved. It was a rough year because Johnny acts as though he has not a care in the world.

He was way too layed back as far as school was concerned.

Every time I would go to a school conference all 7 of his teachers would start the conversation with.....John is such a nice boy buuuuuttttttt...................
LOL

Anyway, Sunday was a gorgeous day. The ceremony was held outside and I just beamed with pride.

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Congratulations!!!

you must be very proud.

So what are his plans now? A summer job?? Will he go to college?

What does he want to be??

Sorry Sox I have 0 tips to give on how to get your kid to graduate except lots of love, praise, patience, THREATS:eek:(just jokin on the threats):cool:

His plan as of 20 minutes ago LOL is he's going to the community college first and get his prereqs. out of the way. He really doesn't know what he wants to do yet. and thats fine for now but he really needs to think about it.

Cindy, I'll try anything for money:cool:

Beth,

Community College is the ideal way to go!

FYI - My best and most successfull students ALL started in Community College. And now, they are doing great,..., loving their jobs and making more money than can be spent.

WOOO HOOO !

Great job indeed!:)

-Vic

I do have a confession to make though:(:( For the last 6 months or so, Johnny was getting mail from the Army, Airforce, navy and marines.

I didn't show them to him. I didn't open them and I didn't throw them away but I was afraid it might put ideas in his head and I already went through 4 1/2 years of HE!! when my oldest son Joined and went to Afghanistan for 15 months.

I know I'm awful and I will eventually show him. I just didn't want any outside influence.

I'm probably going to get some flack from some of you and I probably deserve it but he's under 18 and he lives in my house and at this point I am just a mom protecting her young:cool::eek::o

(I do feel better after confessing);)

Congrats!

I know how long their school careers can be. Felt like I dragged both of mine all the way.

:p

You did fine keeping those letters. I don't blame you a bit - I did the same thing.

:o

I have only one son and they weren't getting him without a fight. He's the last boy with his family name, and that should mean something.

Thanks for this Vic. My dd is heading to communtiy college this fall. It's nice to know you think highly of them and they're worthwhile.

She wants to be a translator, taught herself Japanese.

congrats beth, hopefully the last one will be easy, we recently had the last of 5 graduate its a great feeling, glad the weather cooperated, again congrats beth

Congrats Johnny and mom. Being a retired Marine (by disability), I see no reason for you to get any flack. The decision is his if he wants to go in the service, and you have every right to be scarred. If you hid the mail from him so what, he doesnt need that for him to make a decision. Any how good luck.

Thank you JMiller for that! I kinda have a guilty conscience but you are absolutely right. If he has it in his head to join he is going to with or without the mail that I confiscated. LOL

The first part of 12th grade he did talk alot about joining the airforce but he hasn't mentioned it in awhile and I guess I didn't want the info to get him back in the mood.

He's a smart kid and I know what ever decisions he makes he'll make them after thinking about it for a while:)

He's going to do what he's going to do. Unfortunately you can't do a thing about that (after he turns 18 I mean).

But until then, DO continue to hide every single letter you get. You keep nurturing, and protecting him. You're his mom. That's what we do.

There isn't a parent on this board who won't side with you!!!

Sincerely,

Melody

me too beth
 

Beth I did the same thing with my Nick. Im really not proud of myself, but
would have no problem with any mom doing the same thing.:o

:hug:

Confessions are certainly good to cleanse the soul. shhhhhew!! I feel better.

I kinda blamed myself when my older son joined the army.

He had absolutely no direction in life. We got into an argument one day just a few days after his 18th birthday.

He wasn't working, just kinda laying around and I got mad. I told him he needed to do something worthwhile in his life. I blurted out "why don't you join the army. A place to sleep, eat, and exercise. ( I was just mad when I said that)

Three days later he came to me with his enlistment papers. My jaw hit the floor and I started bawling. I told him, "I can't believe you did this" "What the heck is wrong with you"! He said "you told me too!" I said " I DIDN'T MEAN IT" "geez MARK, If I told you to jump off the ambassador bridge would you do it:eek:"

This was pre 911 and so 4 weeks later Mark was on his first plane ride to Missouri (Ft. Leonardwood) after bootcamp he came home for a bit and on Sept 10th the day before 911 he flew to FT Drum New York.

6 weeks later he was in Afghanistan and I quietly have never forgiven myself.

That boy has not been the same since he came back.

After thinking about what I was doing as far as withholding military information mail from johnny, I carefully put it through the shedder!

Awwww What a beautiful Sunny Day.

(((Beth)))

My brother went to Viet Nam... some of his friends never came back. My neice went to Saudi Arabia and Iraq - A woman, AFMP? How scary is that? I'm proud of her, trust me. But I don't know how her father lived through that.

I have one son. He has a beautiful little girl. She's coming tomorrow, and we will be blowing bubbles and coloring with side walk chalk.

:)

The military is relentless in trying to get high school kids to sign up with them. They even sent home a video with Kevin about the Marines - made it look like a vacation resort or something!! I told him if he believed the tape then I was going to have his head examined. I have been to Parris Island and know exactly what they do to young, inexperienced boys straight out of high school.

There for a while they were calling the house - the caller ID would show "U.S. Government" when they called and the first time I received one of those calls I was almost afraid to answer the phone. Couldn't imagine what it was about.

I finally got tired of them calling all the time and told the recruiter from the Army that he would have to get past ME in order to get to my son and I was not going down easily. :o

I hated to be so adamant about not letting Kevin join the service but I had already lost enough of my family and I was just not going to let him go. After I explained this to him he understood my fear and quit talking about it. Now, he says he's glad he never followed through with it.

I think all boys think about joining the military at some point. If he had received mail from these recruiters I would have hidden it or thrown it away, too, so don't feel guilty. We're just doing what Mom's do! :)

Beth .. congrats on the 'two down one to go' graduation goal!!

about the service ... it's so much different now than it was years ago .. unless he has made comments about joining, I wouldn't encourage it ... have him look into going to a 'tech' school (and then you can still claim him as a dependent) until he's 24 ...

tech schools have so much to offer ... thoughts are with you!! be strong!

Haha! First of all congrats to Johnny!!! When you said you went to parent conference and they started with your son is great but...I swear I saw myself at Nik's school. lol He challenged his teachers to the max. lmao

I am a firm, very firm believer in community college before university level. I am also the first to vote for 14 grade years rather than 12 if it ever happens. Community college prepares you in a much more relaxed environment for the "big' school in my honest opinion. My kids went straight to university level. Guess my opinion meant squat to them. lol

I agreee. I told my son, if he wanted to enlist and felt strongly that it was his duty to do so, I would have supported that all the way (much as it would have worried me).

But he had done the last 2 yrs of HS in trades school, preparing for his career. He had no desire to be military, Whew. He went straight from High school to a decent job as a machinist -whew again lol. Now he's working for the railroad training for a machinist position there. Still a dangerous job, but he's home every night.


You never know, when you first hold your new baby, who they will be when they're grown.

Blowing bubbles, sidewalk chalk, grandchildren, What a blast!!!

My Uncle was in Viet Nam. Not only did he come back a different person (not for the best) he contracted Agent Orange.

They had 4 stillbirth babies. The one child that was born has autism and mental retardation (he's 34 now) still lives with my uncle and Aunt.

My uncle is blind in one eye. one deaf ear. Hasn't worked a day in his life and still talks about Viet Nam any time someone lets him.

My oldest son came back from afghanistan with anger management problems, stomach problems, not able to hold down a job for long periods. He feels like the world owes him something, He has night terrors and when there is a noise like firecrackers, or a car back firing he hits the ground.

It is just awful.:(