When your children are born, the time when they become an independent, responsible adult seems so far off that it hardly comes to mind. As they grow, and their personalities develop, you start to think about what they might be choose for their life's vocation. Sometimes it is hard to determine. For my oldest child, she chose a path that I never dreamed of for her. My youngest is finally on a path I envisioned, but he took a few side routes before settling on his current major. However, my middle child went the route I always thought she would.
This weekend Trisha graduated from Mount Carmel College of Nursing with her Bachelor of Science of Nursing degree. For nursing, the ceremonies span two days. The first night was the Senior Pinning and the second day was the actual commencement ceremony with all of the graduates of the college.
At the Senior Pinning, awards were given. Most of the awards were peer-selected awards. Two awards were faculty selections. Trisha won the award for Clinical Excellence, the faculty selected award that goes to the student that performs at the top of his/her class in the clinical setting. Trisha was nominated by her pediatric clinic instructor who said that she showed compassion and professionalism to everyone including other students, hospital staff, patients and parents. To be honest, this award did not surprise me at all. Trisha has always been a caring, compassionate person. Nursing is the perfect profession for her. All of her patients are going to very lucky to have her at their side.
Below she is receiving the pin for her award from the Dean of the college.
After the pinning ceremony, we had the obligatory photo session. Her boyfriend and his parents joined us for the event. Don't they make a cute couple?
Her 'little' brother is very proud of her also.
Here she is before the commencement ceremony. She had the most pins of all the graduates, including her Clinical Excellence pin and a Leadership award pin she was also given. The two cords were for the academic sororities that she joined. The gold stole was for graduating Summa Cum Laude.
The proud family, minus Kristin who wasn't able to get home for the ceremony.
After the graduation ceremony, everyone came back to our house for a cookout. Now that everything is done, I'm going to spend the next few weeks focusing on activities I enjoy.
Like my knitting.
The Weekender sweater is off to the races now. Knitting with size 9 needles is making it go fast. Let's see if I can get this done by next fall.
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