Off to four days of graduation fun, culminating on Mothers Day, a sea of hats celebrating the beginning of the real world for him and the end of tuition payments for us. Like a destination wedding without the Spanx: Eight official events, plus random breakfasts, receptions, cocktail parties, dinners, garden parties, UPS drama and parking nightmares. All in the rain, if you can trust the meteorology majors who predict the weather. 

Top clichés that are repeated over and over again:

1. So many emotions

2. Impossible to believe

3. Four (five, six) years flew by

4. My baby – all grown up

5. Me – too grown up

6. He worked so hard

7. So proud (especially of that final grade – an A in Hip Hop Appreciation)