Graduating High School Senior has accepted his diploma. He sang in the senior choir, made his speech, visited with well-wishers, and then crashed (slept) on the couch still in his dress clothes.
We hosted a party the next day for between 125 and 175 people. It was difficult to tell exactly how many guests had visited.
Through it all, I didn't know if I was coming or going. I didn't know exactly who was coming or going. Quite literally.
My grandmother, up there in years, drove herself the 6-hour distance from her home to our town. It was rumored that she was on her way.
During the days I thought she was driving I worried.
And I listened for the phone and I watched the driveway, hoping for a link to the coming and going.
Finally someone's Facebook post showed a picture of her in another town an hour away.
"I guess she made it," I said to myself. I was very much guessing.
Out of the loop. Out of sorts.
We learned many lessons through this experience.
1. Do not throw a party the day after graduation. Give yourself some time to prepare, once the June concerts, senior dinners, and class nights have come to an end.
2. Use heave-duty mosquito control.
3. Put large fans in the barn if it's a hot day. Nobody wants to dance inside a red, metal oven.
4. Borrow coolers and refrigerators. Lots of them. Have enough cold, bottled water on hand to provide for a small village, let alone a group the size of a backyard get-together.
5. Start saving now for the next boy's grad party. T minus two years.
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