The Baby Graduated from College Last Week!

 


You cannot write a blog day in and day out without once in a while becoming personal. Last week was personal. CB (my Charge Syndrome son who makes me a septaguanarian single mom) and I took off for Sacramento, about a three-hour drive last week to watch my grandson, Nicholas (had to have that name - he was born December 25), graduate from UC Davis in electrical engineering. Not sure how the "baby" became the "engineer" overnight! Neko, though, went through the covid years in high school -- and did not get a high school graduation -- and spent the first year in college learning long-distance before things settled down out here in California. Still finished in four years, though, which apparently is an accomplishment for science degrees. 

Oh, yes! That hair is real. Like his father's before him (before his dad, my older son, had to crop it when CHP hired him).

Neko is taking a few months off to figure out his next steps (working, probably). Clearly, he is as stunned as we are that the newborn is now a college grad!

It is always a source of joy to have something to celebrate!

(My CHARGEr celebrated staying in a hotel!! Everyone has his/her own sense of joy!)

Wishing all of you on over-the-hump day a bouquet of joy, too!


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