This post is about someone very close to my heart. He is brilliant young man, I’ve watched him growing in front of my eyes since he was born. He is my (and not only my) pride, heart, soul. I practiced my parenting skills on him before I dreamed of being a parent and polished my pedagogical skills on him when I was a teacher. 🙂 Hopefully neither one of those damaged him too much 😛
Let me introduce to you my handsome, brilliant and very hard working son (even though he is my nephew) Yan.
His graduation from the Oviedo high school was yesterday (again I was practicing crying for graduation of my own kids in 10 years! Actually really tearing up, not practicing 😛 ). Oh how proud we were (all 5 of us, cheering for him in loud Russian/English) when our baby stepped on stage of the UCF arena to get his diploma!
Now, while you are stepping into the adulthood, I wish you to keep setting up a great example for my own kids. They already look up to you! Keep it up, son!
Yasik, I love you, thank you for making me proud!
So, the ‘before’ picture 🙂
And many-many ‘after’:
May 24, 2013, 3:49 pm
Какой же он у вас красавец! Поздравляю, Тамара! Удачи вашему сыну на его жизненном пути!
May 24, 2013, 4:00 pm
@[100003026494301:2048:Solena], spasibo! Ne to slovo, krasavez! A eshe I umniza kakoi! Yasik, ne chitaj, a to zagordish’sya!!!
May 24, 2013, 4:15 pm
не читаю, но все равно спасибо :р
May 24, 2013, 4:15 pm
I am very proud of him too. We loved getting to know him the year he spent with us at North Gwinnett. :–
May 24, 2013, 4:15 pm
awwwwhhh, thanks Mrs. S 🙂
May 24, 2013, 4:31 pm
This is the student my friend Amber taught at Oviedo:)
May 24, 2013, 7:20 pm
Proud is the only feeling which makes combination of tears with happiness.People say they never met & when they met there is no better thing happen in life…
May 25, 2013, 6:16 am
He never remembers me, but seeing him growm up such a handsome man I’m so proud of my beloved Ksu! Dear girls, take care of your brilliant Yan!
May 25, 2013, 6:37 am
Congratulations, Yan! I know how hard you worked.