HS grad moms what are you doing to celebrate?

DD graduated Saturday. We had an Open House with anoth family, then attended the graduation ceremony. My mother in law and father in law came from another state and my brother's wife flew in.
DD requested a luggage set, so that's what we gave her. We are doing a lot of traveling this summer. She leaves for Playa de Carma next week. I am taking her shopping Saturday for some vacation clothes.

We will be going out to lunch afterwards. It is a DAR Constitution Hall in DC so we may go somewhere down there or come back into MD for it. No party here. We are going to Europe on June 14 as a celebration gift.

I'm not doing announcements.  I don't really get the point of them other than hinting that the recipient should send a gift.

DS graduates on Sunday, June 5th. His Open House party is on Saturday, June 4th. We invited a lot of people, I guess I never thought of it as a gift grab, but rather others celebrating with us.

My in-laws and one of our exchange students will be attending the actual graduation ceremony with us. Afterwards, DS is free to go wherever he wants and hang out with his friends. I tried to keep a very open schedule for him.

Grad is on a Wednesday evening, and we won't do much of anything that day. It will probably be just our immediate family and her boyfriend.

We're having an open house party the following Saturday. We sent formal announcements/invites to close friends and family, and she posted an invite on FB and texted her friends. The party will be on our patio and pirate themed because her college mascot is the Pirates. Fun to plan and super laid back.

She's getting a new laptop as her gift, and I'm trying to finish up a photo book of her childhood, but I keep getting bogged down in all her adorable little girl pics.

I have a year to go with oldest ds. This thread gives me a few ideas for future reference.

Lisa

DS graduates tonight. he's off right now at the last day festivities. They have a rehearsal, then they are graffi-ing the parking lot (my favorite tradition), then they get to go do a grad walk at the other schools. That last one is new this year. I think it was added last minute because the pictures and article about the school in another state only went viral a few weeks ago. I'm excited they added it. I love the idea. The safe and sober party is this evening after the ceremony.

We aren't going to have a big party this weekend. There aren't a lot of family members who can make it to the graduation. We're going to throw him a big party in June when more family will be in the area and combine it with his Eagle Court of Honor. I'm going to see if we can make him a Drinko game for the party. That looks too fun.

Nothing other then his grad dinner and ceremony. This is where having a dysfunctional family full of assholes is very handy no fuss no muss. Can't wait to have this last one graduated!

You all are making me feel better. DS doesn't want a party. We can't figure out what to get him for a gift. He has a two year old computer and is waiting to see what he really needs at school, has a car. I want something memorable-ish.

We bought the minimal number of announcements, but most are still sitting in the box. I wanted to do the less expensive photo kind- but DH wanted traditional.

We had a big trip planned, but it fell apart and DS isn't bothered.

I feel like a dud and disappointment. But DS is kind of okay about it all. I am not!