Sunday, June 07, 2009





My "little" brother, Alex, graduated from high school today. I'm not hormonal, but when I saw all those kids marching out of their holding chamber and onto the court at Xavier U's Cintas Center, I got the wee-est bit choked up. It only gets better kids. Tougher, crazier and more real. And so much bigger.
And holy!!! He was just dressing up in my mom's high heels, and begging for lipstick. And now, here he is, all passing over into this new stage, and joining the Air Force.
We were nothing but honored to host the (Dad-funded) celebratory meal, complete with Filet Mignon and sushi and muhammara and these horrible, obnoxious and completely unnecessarily decadent Marshmallow Crunch Brownie Bars.
Sweet.

6 comments:

everpress said...

He might not be going in the Airforce with the "highheels" and "lipstick" comment..

Sunny said...

Ha! I thought every boy goes through a transvestite phase.

Alex said...

oy, I don't remember any high heels and lip stick!!! lol kinda unfair bringing up stuff from when I was to little to even remember, especially when it was probably your influence haha

Sunny said...

I would never instigate any such thing :)

Eralda LT said...

Love the pictures, especially the first one. It made me laugh out loud. Congratulations!

Oh, and I just made muhammara a few days ago. I love it!

Sunny said...

Eralda- did you use pomegranate molasses in your muhammara? I didn't have it, and I think it really missed it.