crystal ball

Well, here we are.  All the kids are graduated! We had a good day.  The ceremony was nice and after we went to DS and had lunch at Blaze (Grace's pick)

Later Isaiah brought the kids over to swim and we ordered 4 Rivers.  Tom and Diana and Jess are in Seattle meeting baby Olly. It was fun to see them and we enjoyed splashing around in the pool.

The ceremony was at the Amway Center. In the end, they had fireworks.  I had never seen indoor fireworks, they were loud.  If you think Lincoln looks unhappy about his hat you should have seen how happy he was about the explosions.  (he was not)

Tomorrow Rob and I head back to MD.  Grace will stay here until the end of July.  I often wish we had access to a crystal ball and could look into the future.  When we found out we were moving we thought Grace was on track for a bright futures scholarship, that she wanted to go to school in Florida, that she had a wonderful senior band year ahead of her and and she was set for the best year ever.

So we stayed. And her year was not awesome. Her band experience was a disaster, and now she’s been here without her parents for the end of her school year and the summer before college. 

If we had sold our home and made her move it might have been better for her.

We also might have been living in Leonardtown now instead of the wilderness because we wouldn’t have built way out there. 

And it would have cost less because the interest rates have gone crazy in the last year. 

We did sell the FL house for a good price. And Rob is delighted with our present location. And Grace is delighted to have met and fallen in love with Blake. 

 Life is always full of surprises!!