Sprightly Sprouting: August 2012

Graduation!!!

Wow! So much has happened over the past few months it's difficult to get my thoughts straight sometimes! Nick is officially an M.D. as of May 15th and I am a Masters of Music Ed. We could not be happier. It is sort of surreal to dream of your future career and then get to a moment - like graduation - when you realize you're that much closer.

Masters and M.D.

I was so proud of Nick during his graduation I was fighting back tears. Four years in a city that was so foreign at first, having to stay up for sometimes more than 24 hours at a time, and taking rigorous tests, was finally coming to a close with this ceremony. Nick is an excellent doctor! His future neurology patients will be in excellent hands!

Future doctors!

Future doctors during ceremony

Nick being hooded

Shaking the deans' hand

Official doctor!

One proud mother!

The happy couple!

And here's to a future music teacher!

I could not be happier with my career choice. It's crazy to believe that I'll be paid to enjoy music making with my students everyday! I spent the year working with Woburn Public Schools teaching general music and chorus while still working on my Masters. I will forever have a soft spot for this first bunch of hooligans - 6-8th graders who definitely challenged my classroom management at times and reminded me often of why I was doing this. They were a wonderful first bunch with crazy enthusiasm in my class.