Yesterday, Mary swung out of high school. It was a warm/hot spring day and the ceremony was perhaps the best swingout I have been. I have never heard of swingout until we moved to Greenville, nontheless, I do like them. It is a fun way to celebrate with seniors on the very last day. The class speakers did an excellent job, including their class moto and song as themes for their speeches. The welcome spoke of paths and used a poem from Frost to link her speech. The farewell speaker used the theme of lockers in her speech relating that to their high school years and now moving on to dorms and apartments. My favorite had to have been the history, where he used the theme of rollercoasters, keeping in mind their class song "Roll On". He used the examples of "waiting in line" 13 years to graduate from high school. Spoke of the highlights through the elementary, middle and high school years together. The memorable event was when he had two classmates get up and the "rode the rollercoaster" one more time as class, something the student section did during basketball games throughout high school. What a great addition to a speech for them to remember. He finished up with "Ok class of 2010, let's go!" After the ceremoney we went outside to get pictures out in the sunny grassy are outside the gym. Mary was happy to get pictures with family and friends, including mom and dad, Grandma H and friends, Mrs Nelson, Brandon, Nicole and many classmates. Time passed by and it was time for Mary to depart for her senior mystery trip. I haven't talked to her yet since she got home at 0130, but hope that she had a great time with her class. Her next event is Baccalaureate on Thursday.
Life outside of high school graduation is a rollercoaster in itself. Matthew is still in the hospital. Yesterday he had a great day. No fevers, he was an eating machine, even taco bell, and culture negative so far. Then last night he spiked a fever to 101 and his white count rose to 16 this morning. It was 12 yesterday. He will get another cat scan if tomorrow's white count goes up again. I am starting to feel like the end will never come. Stress levels are high.
Church softball is a rollercoaster too. We have won our games by a small margin each week. Last week a team conceded at the bottom of the 7th and told us you won, and the players walked off the field. Now they said they won the game. There is controversy in church ball. That just isn't right. I sure hope things can get resolved.
Orchestra plays for church tomorrow and I teach sunday school. Sarah will be taking over at the hospital later today.
Gracie
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