Day 37 My son is in year TEN!!

OK so I cheated. I have 2 pics for today, but they are of the same item, just different views.
Today was Declan's first day of school for the year. He is in year 10 and therefore had the opportunity to purchase a commemorative shirt ($$ouch!) He put it on at school and it was already stinky with teenage, smelly boy on a summer day smell! Interestingly he chose to have Deckles printed as his name on the back as this is what his friends call him (I never knew this until we discussed the name he wanted on it!).

The big deal about yr 10 in the ACT is that it is the end of high school. While NSW has abolished the School Certificate as it is no longer relevant, in the ACT because you graduate from high school in yr 10, it still has reason to be a big deal. THEN you go to college for yr 11 and 12, thus having another reason to graduate after 2 years!

This is the beginning of the end of an era for us. After this year, Illi and Declan will no longer go to, nor be likely to ever go to, the same school again.

Another issue related but only slightly...how is it possible that I could have a child in yr 10, an almost 15 year old!?! I mean seriously, I am Flis, I am the youngest of the 4 Waser girls, I was the last one to start having children, I have the youngest grandchild in our strand of the family, it is not possible for me to have a child THAT old! Although I like to shock people by telling them that I have a child that old, when I look at it from the opposite view, it also make ME old! So excuse me if I start telling people he is my little brother or nephew or SOMETHING that means I appear to decrease in age, cos I don't feel old enough to have a child in year TEN, about to graduate from high school!!