{"id":1734,"date":"2009-05-29T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2009-06-14T10:07:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T14:07:46","slug":"graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2009\/05\/graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was Carolyn&#8217;s last day of preschool:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1738\" title=\"20090529_lastday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/carolyn\/20090529_lastday.jpg\" alt=\"20090529_lastday\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They had a little graduation ceremony for the kids.\u00a0 It was so cute!\u00a0 I was worried I would cry, but the only thing that made me even tear up a little was watching Carrie and her close friends walking up to receive their &#8220;diplomas&#8221; and picturing how they would walk across the stage 13 years from now.\u00a0 One of them I can just picture skipping across the stage in her cap and gown, just like she did this morning.\u00a0 And poor Carrie nearly fell on the little stairs they had, because &#8211; as she put it &#8211; &#8220;The stairs are a little big, and so are my new white dressy shoes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1736\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1736\" title=\"20090529_tripping\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/carolyn\/20090529_tripping-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tripping up those stairs!\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tripping up those stairs!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1735\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1735\" title=\"20090529_congrats\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/carolyn\/20090529_congrats-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Congratulations!&quot;\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Congratulations!&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1739\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1739\" title=\"20090529_diploma\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/carolyn\/20090529_diploma-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The diploma\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The diploma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1737\" title=\"20090529_graduate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/images\/carolyn\/20090529_graduate.jpg\" alt=\"20090529_graduate\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about Carrie, but I&#8217;m going to miss preschool:<\/p>\n<p>I loved her teachers, both years.\u00a0 The teachers at this school are all excellent, and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing them all again when Anna&#8217;s a bit older.\u00a0 And this year I really looked forward to drop-off and pick-up, as I made friends with several other moms.\u00a0 Even though I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll be getting the kids (and ourselves!) together this summer, I&#8217;ll miss seeing them every other day!<\/p>\n<p>Next stop: kindergarten!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was Carolyn&#8217;s last day of preschool: They had a little graduation ceremony for the kids.\u00a0 It was so cute!\u00a0 I was worried I would cry, but the only thing that made me even tear up a little was watching<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carolyn-milestones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1747,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}