Graduation!

Students.  

For years (just shy of 7)  this word has been a part of who I am.  No, I have not technically been the student.  However, anyone who has been married to a student knows that it truly is a 'we' when you say 'we' are in school.  The spouse of a student doesn't actually attend the classes, but they do more than enough to make the use of 'we' ok.  

My whole marriage I have been a students wife.  I have spent many nights a week alone as my  husband attends classes and studies.  I have watched my poor, sweet husband come home completely exhausted from his day of work and then class only to help with the house and stay up late studying or finishing homework assignments.  I have witnessed countless acts of service on my families behalf to keep us afloat when we felt we were drowning.  I have spent more nights on my knees in prayer than I ever imagined I would in a life time.  

Tonight I get to watch my husband walk with his class at the University of Utah.  I get to see him in his cap and gown.  I get teary eyed even thinking about this moment.  It's been a long time coming!

The past few nights I have been explaining graduation to my kids.  It has been so neat to see how proud they are of their dad.  Not to mention the excitement they feel in knowing dad will now be able to come home after work.  It is doubtful I could be more proud of the example my husband has set for my children.  They have seen his hard work.  They know he has sacrificed much of his time for this dream.  Yet somehow they have never felt like their dad has been absent from their lives.  That is a true testament to KC and the kind of father that he is.  What lucky kids I have to be able to call him dad!

So now, almost 7 years, 3 1/2 kids, 2 bachelors, and 2 masters later KC will be graduating from the University of Utah. (Kind of anyway.... he technically has 2 months of classes left, but they don't do graduation during the summer.  Plus 2 months is nothing compared with everything we have had before.)

I'm so proud of you KC!  I am so blessed to be married to you and to be able to call you mine.  I truly am the luckiest!!