So, this happened!!

One down, nine to go! Our first child to graduate from high school!! Bobbi's road has looked different from the "normal" in many ways, but we're so proud of how she's plugged through and made the best of a jumbled up last three years of education. She moved in the middle of one school year, spent the second half of the year learning a new language, did the first half of her junior year at home, second half part-time at the high school, then took two rounds of summer courses before her senior year which she started as a full time public school student...and then had surgery a month in, so finished the rest of the first half of her senior year with in-home teacher visits twice a week while she was recovering at home and daily half hour sessions while she was inpatient for that month before Christmas. The second half of her senior year was all the way through at the high school (minus a whole range of therapy appointments), and so ends one wild ride of a high school education!

Next year (and for one or two more years after that) Bobbi will be attending a transitional program through the district that helps roughly 25 students build life skills (laundry, cooking, bank account management), explore careers both internally and through college courses and work opportunities, and is designed to meet each student where they're at and help them work toward their individual goals. We're excited for this next step for her.

Thanks to my friend and her daughter who joined us at the ceremony, and took some great photos!!