Graduation has begun

Well, after a week in which... never mind, it's behind us now.

Tonight Johanna's Graduation festivities began, with a worship service. Kind of a good way to begin.

Her class enters the church.

They got a lot in during that hour!

The whole class.

Johanna is just left of center.

Then to the school for Tea.

Then we leave, hopefully living out the banner.

Hard to believe, 13 years done.

She's worked hard to accomplish this goal.

I sat there remembering how we used to read with her. She was ticked off that even after two weeks in kindergarten, she still didn't know how to read.  I remembered working through the times tables, half of which I didn't even know.

I remembered our very first parent/teachers interview which happened in grade one. We walked in there unsure of how this all worked and the first thing her teacher said was something like, "So you're Johanna's parents!! What do you do at home to make this girl what she is?!?" We sat there for ten minutes listening as her teacher preened and carried on about her. We went home thinking, wow, this parenting thing is easy! And hey, we're good at it!!

Yeah. Time makes fools of us all.

It's really cool to see who she's turning into. A Self confident, passionate young lady.

This is going to be a good weekend.