One Most Awesome Day

Friday, May 15/20

I was awakened this morning at 7:18 am with a text notification from Carleton University that made me simultaneously smile and tear up.

What did the notification say?

I've got the Carleton University app on my phone as does my ex as our son has been attending the school for the last 3 years in pursuit of his Bachelor of Arts degree.

When professors post grades the app sends you a notification and you can log in and see which course posted a new grade. So far over the past week or so we've gotten four such notifications and were waiting on his last professor to post to his mark.

Today was that day as he earned his final mark as a student and became an official university graduate!!!!

To call me a proud father would be putting it mildly.

Education has always played an important part of my life and I've tried my best to pass that along to my children, successfully so far, and now it is time to turn that attention to my grandchildren :-)

Yes, I get it that my grandson is only 3 years old and my granddaughter is only 14 weeks old but you can never start too early, I started with my daughter when she was 6 and my son even younger.

I literally started to cry as I sent him and his mother a text congratulating him and telling him how proud I was of him and all the hard work he put into his studies. He ends his undergraduate degree with an A- average, not too bad for a kid who was worried he'd be able to do the work and even graduate when he headed off to his first day of university 3 years ago.

My name is Marcus and my heart feels so full of love right now. Eight weeks into the Covid-19 Pandemic and I'm still finding things that make me happy.