About this time last year, I posted this picture of Portia (brunette) and Babs (blonde) taken on Portia's first day of elementary school to mark her last day of formal education as she finished her third year at UT Law School.
Today I'm posting it again, this time in honor of Babs. Her last day of formal education is today as she completes her course work for the master's degree in counseling at UT's Graduate School of Education. She's looking for a job in the field of Human Resources after graduation.
Babs is a joy and delight to everyone. Funny and witty enough to be on Saturday Night Live, she is also an exceptional student, accomplished cook (like her aunt), actress, and insatiable reader (just like Mom). There's never been a dull moment with Babs--from nursery school through high school.
My favorite thing about her college years was the long road trips I made with her back and forth between Sewanee, Tennessee and Sugar Land, her car stuffed with all her gear, trying to find something other than fundy preaching on the radio as we drove through Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. I miss those trips and I miss both of my college girls.
Without Babs I wouldn't know about Project Runway, What Not to Wear (British and American versions), The Tudors (trashified), David and Amy Sedaris, Nigella Lawson (cookbook author), or the novels of Alexander McCall Smith--just to name a few things. I might even still be wearing Fiesta dresses and wooden painted earrings if she hadn't staged an intervention!
Now Babs will be making the transition from the world of the student to the world of work. It's an adjustment for anyone, but I'm sure she'll make it beautifully. Her whole family is so very proud of her.
