ho hum

with friends at the dinner

Well that's it.  My baby is a graduate and my full-time parenting job is done.  Crap.  The ceremony was fine though it has been such a problematic year with Grace's class, the speeches were "interesting".  They were all about overcoming differences and hardships and coming out a better, stronger person etc etc.  A bunch of bull because the issues were never resolved.  Thankfully most of the kids are/were friendly and they are the one's who celebrated with all of us last night.  After the ceremony there was a dinner/party that I helped organize with 3 other moms.  The picture above is of our 4 girls.  It went off without too many hitches.  We did have one mom, (wealthy Italian), whose group came an hour late to the event and bitched because there wasn't a table for 5 just waiting for them.  We hadn't made seating arrangements as it was a buffet and we thought groups would mingle but alas the teachers all sat together, the Germans took one table, the Africans another, the Italians another and so on.  The kids were fine as they all went out on the terrace but the nationalities tended to stick together just as they do socially outside of school.  Anyway this woman had a hissy fit because we hadn't reserved a table for her group and said if we didn't accommodate them they wanted their money back.  I wanted to tell her to take her money and shove it but my more diplomatic friend and colleague did some maneuvering and found them space all together.  There was another bitchy fit from yet another spoiled non working rich wife which peeves me because none of these people offered to help organize in any way.  At least now that graduation has past I won't have to have anything to do with them.  Not being a classroom teacher has many advantages, one of which is not having to have contact with parents!  Ah well.  Time for bed.  I still have a month of school!  Sob.  xxoo me