What does Christmas have to do with Graduation?
Well, normally not a lot — but when you have granddaughters named Olivia and Madison, both aged five and both graduating from pre-school a few months before Christmas … well, Graduation and Christmas were made for each other!
And of course I was right there for both graduations! The second one (Madison’s) really threw me, because at the beginning, as the children marched in to graduation music, the school had a little Powerpoint presentation that came on and announced “Welcome, Class of 2024!” Wow! I was not ready for that piece of news!
But it was at the first one, Olivia’s graduation, that I got the idea. You see, I have a friend, also named Linda, who has a very unusual specialty: she takes flowers and transforms them into beads for a variety of custom-made jewelry pieces, like rings, bracelets, and necklaces. I thought, “Hmm… Maybe the girls would like to have a keepsake of their very first graduation!”
Of course I had already planned to give each of my granddaughters a lovely little bouquet after the ceremony was over. Here’s what those bouquets looked like back at graduation time, before I snatched them up to take home to Linda for transformation,
and here’s what they looked like as I was wrapping them up a few days before Christmas:
Aren’t they beautiful? And don’t grandmas have the very best time of all?
P.S.: Please check out Timeless Moments to see the amazing things that Linda does with flowers!
