Dreaming with a broken heart

To my rock and refuge,

Happy Father's Day!

Oh the Places You'll Go!

So a few weeks ago we were able to celebrate three graduations in the family. Travis received his Master's of Art in Teaching from Elms College. It was a gorgeous day for an outdoor ceremony and I was so proud. Hazel even popped in for the festivities.

My cute Mom graduated the same day at the same time from Springfield College with her Bachelor's. Needless to say we missed her graduation, but she wore sassy shoes and received the highest academic honors- note her fun tassels.

Then we were fortunate to have a family graduation party in New York to celebrate not only Travis and my Mom, but my Aunt Claire (alias Aunt Claire Bear). She received her Doctorate from Columbia University. Here's my proud Grandma with a couple of her extremely intelligent and successful daughters.

My Aunt Claire dedicated her dissertation to her boy Wesley seen here sporting his graduation cap. Very handsome guy.

This picture was ridiculously difficult to get. Who knew it was so hard to throw caps at the same time?

Lastly, Travis was finally able to plant a garden of his own earlier this spring- lifelong goal achieved. We have way too much lettuce, kale, broccoli, peppers, etc. I'm still mad we didn't plant strawberries. Curse your greens.

But it resulted in beef with broccoli for dinner tonight so I cannot complain too much. And no, we just bought the beef.

Last day of school is this Thursday and we are so excited for summer. It has been a terribly

L-O-N-G year for us and we are looking forward to some R&R.