{"id":6130,"date":"2013-05-20T13:20:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T18:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/?p=6130"},"modified":"2013-05-20T13:20:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T18:20:22","slug":"my-little-graduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/my-little-graduate\/","title":{"rendered":"My Little Graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am sure this is not the post in which I should express all of my opinions regarding Kindergarten Graduation, Elementary School Graduation, Middle School Graduation, and T-ball trophies!\u00a0 But let me be the parent that shouts loud and clear that I am not a fan of any of the above.\u00a0 I firmly believe that Graduation is an honor that should be reserved for those that have completed 13 full years of school (K-12) and for students completing college, or higher education…and that trophies should be earned and deserved, not given to every player that put on a uniform.<\/p>\n

Can I get an AMEN?<\/p>\n

And if any of you would like to start a petition to get this back to the way it was when we were kids, I am happy to jump on the bandwagon!<\/p>\n

HOWEVER…<\/p>\n

Despite my little rant above, my baby girl did have a graduation ceremony last week, and<\/em> I am proud of her for doing so well in kindergarten, and<\/em> I will so greatly miss LK being at her pre-school, and<\/em> we have pics from the sweet little ceremony, and<\/em> I would be a mean mom if I didn’t show up and allow my child to participate in the celebration (No, I am not that cold hearted), and<\/em> soooooo…<\/p>\n

Here is my post. :)<\/p>\n

Lilly Katherine’s Kindergarten Graduation.<\/p>\n

She had a precious class of sweet kids.\u00a0 The teachers are the best Kindergarten teachers in the world, and they were Brad’s teachers when he was young.\u00a0 I remind them often that they have to teach at least 5 more years…so all of my kids can have the wonderful foundation that Mrs. Mays and Mrs. Dean provide!<\/p>\n

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Brad’s mom (Nana) taught for years, and since she retired she has taught science every Friday to these kindergarteners, and they LOVE it!\u00a0 She handed out their diplomas.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The class sang a few songs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This was the picture in Lilly Katherine’s journal about graduation.\u00a0 She is such a little artist.<\/p>\n

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This is our failed attempt at a family picture.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Most of them looked more like this!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Lilly Katherine with her sweet friends (twins) Isabella and Sophie.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The class was full of goof-balls.\u00a0 They loved making silly faces, so they wanted a silly face picture.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>We gave each one of them a framed picture of the class and they all signed it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The kids were so excited about their picture.\u00a0 LK has looked at hers over and over.<\/p>\n

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Lilly Katherine and Samuel.\u00a0 We will miss being in school with them!\u00a0 These two love each other like brother and sister.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Congrats my little kindergarten graduate!\u00a0 I love you, and I am so proud of you.\u00a0 I am sad that you will be going to school all day next year!\u00a0 AnnaLeigh, Georgia and I will miss you!\u00a0 However, you will love it, and you will do such a wonderful job!\u00a0 I love you, baby girl!<\/p>\n

-kate<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

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I am sure this is not the post in which I should express all of my opinions regarding Kindergarten Graduation, Elementary School Graduation, Middle School Graduation, and T-ball trophies!\u00a0 But let me be the parent that shouts loud and clear that I am not a fan of any of the above.\u00a0 I firmly believe that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6157,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions\/6157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}