Moving On

So this past Friday, Kiddy Junction Academy held their 2015 Graduation Ceremony for the year’s departing class. I had never even heard of such a thing until Coleen told me that she purchased us tickets to the 2013 event, the year that Reagan first enrolled at KJA. Silly as I thought it was originally, it all changes when you see your own little girl dressed up alongside her class singing the national anthem with their hands over their hearts. It was hard not to smile seeing all kids in their cute caps and gowns.

In previous years, Reagan had won the Reading award and I totally got that, the girl loved to grab a book and immerse herself in another world for hours on end. That was before she realized that she needed to put more effort into actually learning how to read. Nowadays, she takes a lot after her father. Competent to fairly good at a many number of things, but not really excelling at anything in particular. Thus you can imagine my total and utter surprise when they announced this year that Reagan was being awarded the Athletic award for her class. Now any of you who know our girls would clearly recognize that the younger sister got all the athletic and coordination genes passed on to her. Never in a million years would we have suspected that Reagan would even be considered for such an award. That is until I realized that they probably factored in quantity over quality in assessing the candidates. As Mrs. Melissa started itemizing all the activities that we had enrolled her in, and finishing off her list by stating that Reagan had told her that she would be doing a Daddy / Daughter Triathlon next year, the absurdity of the length of the list finally hit me. Moving forward, I think it’s time to start narrowing it down a tad.

The other interesting thing that they have at the ceremony is a nice little fund raising auction, both silent and live, for unique pieces of artwork that the classes do as a group. Now I’ve never bid on anything before, as it was never Reagan’s class’ handy work. In previous years, the pieces never broke $90 so I thought that I’d take a stab at it for this year. True to form, the piece from Division I closed the bidding at $85. As Division II’s piece went on the block, it quickly became apparent that I wasn’t the only parent that felt that parting with a Robert Borden note wasn’t entirely out of the question. Eventually, the bidding slowed down after I pushed it past the $200 mark. Aiden’s Dad really seem to want it and in all honestly, I had no idea where in the house we’d even put this piece, so I relinquished and was ready to call it a day. Out of nowhere, Grandpa drops down a $300 bid. Well, that was that, and now I need to get this thing framed and mounted in Reagan’s room.
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The one I had my eye on however was the “Helping Hands” piece. I just didn’t have the heart to take that one away from Preston’s parents. Especially after Grandpa backed up the Brinks truck for the canvas piece. Lord knows that we didn’t want to be known as “that family” that makes it a point to snatch up everything for their kids no matter what.

I was the first person to call a Pre-School graduation silly, but I find myself eating a mouthful of crow as I look at my big girl with that huge grin on her face holding up her first of many Diplomas to come.