Go ahead and TOOT!

...Now I know what you're probably thinking from the title.....this is going to be some sort of boy humor blog post or something. Not this time people.
This is some real honest to goodness horn tooting. Not mine, mind you. That would be rude.

But it's okay to toot our kids horns every once in a while, right?
Maybe for me it's a little bit of vicariously living through my children. You see, when I was a teenager, much to my mothers shagrin, I was not the most studious student on the block. Or the whole neighborhood for that matter. In fact, I was pretty lousy, by choice, which made for an unending amount of heart ache for my parents.
....So years and loads of regret later, it makes me more happy than you'd ever know to see this on report cards....

4.0!!!!!!

(I think they should add the exclamation marks on good report cards)

Tonight was the induction ceremonies for the Junior National Honor Society, and it's was awesome! Most of you probably know all about that because you were all probably members back in the day. However, that whole experience escaped me for all the years I was in school. To be a member of course your GPA has to be above 3.75, but you also have to do at least 15 hours of service in the community - which is SO GOOD for kids (what am I saying....it's SO GOOD for adults too!) So, they had a few kids talk about what they did for their service hours, then spoke about the importance and origins of education. Tanner got called out of the audience for an object lesson by the keynote speaker, and - not being a lover of being in front of people- he was pretty beet red - but he still did great!

We're super proud of him, and hope he keeps it up next year when grades 'really count'. (who-ever came up with grades DON'T count before 9th grade is silly. Of course they count.....don't the habits they form NOW affect what will come LATER?)

Alright, I hope this hasn't been too much horn tootage, but I really just had to get a big WAHOO off my chest!