May is the last month for our Seniors, their last day is June 1! I can hardly believe it.

I am so grateful for the Benson Polytechnic staff who always made sure Atticus was getting a great education even during his first recurrence, lots of missed days, second recurrence, surgery and injury weeks off, COVID, making sure things were accessible to him. There are amazing people at that school, and a particular shout out to his school counselour who took many panicked emails from me, and was always patient, kind, and explained things to me in ways that I could understand. School is a lot different from back in my day of being the one senior at a tiny private school, graduating alone at Sunday night church - and way more fantastic. I hate school because I’m bad at it, but Benson really made me want to go back to high school - there!

I heard Pomp and Circumstance the other day and burst into tears because #Irene’s Crying Again, but I’m just so proud of him. And yeah, after he shook the principle’s hand I did a bit of a weird sob, to the embarrassment of my girls! As I’ve said before, he could have quit so many times and I never would have blamed him. Atticus graduated with honors, here are the meanings behind his cords and sashes:

Gold: Honors
Colorful cord: Completed Major- electric
Sash: shows what their Major was - electric
Benson Logo "medal" for going to Benson