There are some weeks in life that feel almost impossible to hold together.

 

Weeks where joy and sorrow sit side by side at the same table.

Where your heart expands with gratitude one moment and aches with grief the next.

 

This was one of those weeks for me, filled with overlapping emotions that blurred the boundaries between celebration and farewell.

 

Our youngest son graduated from college this weekend, a milestone that still feels surreal to say out loud. As a mother, there are moments you know are significant while you’re living them, and this was one of them. Watching him walk across that stage carried all the emotions of years gone by: the little boy he was, the man he’s becoming, and the quiet realization that another season of parenting has shifted.

 

And in the midst of all of that joy, our family is also celebrating another beautiful chapter unfolding with our future daughter-in-law. I’ll be sharing more about that next week because it deserv