Milestones

In two days, a milestone will be achieved.  My baby will end her middle school career and my oldest will be a senior in high school.  Where does the time go?  It seems as if yesterday, we were driving M to preschool with Miss Dominque and leaving her with complete strangers.  C went to a preschool in a new area when we moved to GA and I left her with more complete strangers.

Next year, as I have told Maureen, we have some pretty big milestones happening in our lives.  J will be 50, I will be 40 ok  50, we will be married 25 years, M will graduate, go to college and turn 18-yes in that order.  C will turn 16 which means she will be driving a CAR-where does the time go. 

For all of this, I am thinking of a cruise.  My friend, MaryAnn is going Thanksgiving and would love to go with her and her family.  She was my first boss way back when I worked at Dime Savings Bank in Walt Whitman Mall-seems like yesterday we met.  30 years later we still are friends.  Our other friends are going on a different cruise that week and have asked us to go.  Not sure if that is the time I want to go to celebrate all these milestones.

It all starts March 2012- with our anniversary-do we just go on an extended weekend by ourselves and celebrate, do we invite our friends and some family to a nice dinner to celebrate with us, do we let the day go by without any fanfare.  When my parents were married 25 years, my brother and sister and I gave my parents a huge party.  I was working so money was not an issue for the party.

May-M will graduate from HS.  I like to plan parties so this must be a great party to host.

June will be J's birthday-do I have a party inviting friends and family or just hang with him and invite his Godfather and wife for a celebratory dinner.

August-M will be moving to her dorm room in some college away from our house.  I will most likely be on anxiety meds by this time. 

September - C will turn 16-big party for her big day-whatever she wants will work for us.  She will also get her license to drive this month. 

December-MY Birthday-what to do...

My question for now is do we celebrate once and do it big or do we small little things to celebrate each milestone for what it is.  Only time will tell what we end up doing but any suggestions would be welcomed.

Oh Happy Wednesday!!!