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 I will be attending a number of high school graduations in the next few weeks and its always a challenge for me to make as many of them as I can while traveling western Minnesota to accomplish this!

 As a sports broadcaster I cover mostly LQPV, Dawson/Boyd, Canby, and Minneota teams, and over the years I get to know a good number of the student/athletes and parents and become friends with them for life. So as you might imagine I get a good number of graduation invites this time of year from the student/athletes at the different schools I cover. I almost feel like a teacher sometimes on graduation days running from here to there trying to get in as many graduation parties as I can get to in a day! I can tell you it’s almost impossible to get to everyone that sends me an invite, but I try.

I love attending high school graduation parties, it is one of my favorite times of the year. The excitement, families and friends gather, cards and presents, accomplishments of the student/athlete displayed, good weather, food and punch! Speaking of punch, it’s amazing to me going from graduation to graduation party the number of different punches out there, and for the most part all very good. My favorite is anything with a strawberry flavor to it! (hint, hint to any graduate reading this)

And the food!! I still remember some food layouts at some of the graduation parties I have attended in the past, anything from a complete Chinese buffet, to Subway Super subs, root beer floats, kobobs, to roasting a whole pig in a pit, and a complete Hawaiian luau! For the most part, ham sandwiches seem to be the thing to serve at graduation parties.

I remember preparing for our four kids graduation parties and all the work involved in that process, getting the house ready, the yard work, getting picnic tables and chairs and hoping it doesn’t rain, because we don’t have enough room in our home for all the people we invited, so everyone can be outside! But it was all worth it and so much fun.

It’s a special day for the graduate and their family, and it’s also a special day for me, going to the graduations and seeing them smiling and enjoying the moment of graduating from high school and wishing them the best in the future, and in the years to come watching them live their lives, graduating from college, being successful in a career, and starting families of their own.  

Life is good!

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What can I say about moms on Mothers Day? What is motherhood? What does it mean to be a mom? I think moms are pretty amazing, all moms!

As I sit on my couch contemplating and thinking about my own mother, my wife as a mom, my daughter in laws as moms, friends as moms, coworkers as moms, my mother in law as a mom, my sisters as moms, my sister in laws as mothers, my nieces, cousins, they all are amazing moms, but yet they each are all so different as a mom.

You know it’s really hard to put into words trying to describe what a mom is, because I think it’s so much more than giving birth, changing diapers, protecting your children as they grow and doing the things moms are supposed to do. I read in a Mother’s Day card this week, trying to put into words what a mother is and it said “Motherhood, it’s a feeling, not an explanation.” How true is that?  I love that!

Most of you know my wife Roxie, Roxie and I started dating when we were freshman in high school, and this year we celebrated our 40^th wedding anniversary. As long as I’ve known her, all she ever wanted to be was a mom, we had discussions about this all the time cruising around Madison in the early 70’s in my Ford Galaxy 500 when we were in high school, We would sit in my car outside of DeToys after school or a ballgame  and visit about this subject often. Did you know  DeToys had car hops back then?

So after high school, most of her friends went off to college and started careers. She did to, went to college, but her career became being a mother. And the lady I call my wife became a mom for the first time on June 30^th 1977, two births later and adopting a beautiful girl from Korea completed our family. I admired her strong desire to become a mom, even at a young age. Once a mom always a mom, and she has done a fantastic job at the occupation as a mother!

If I were to describe my own mother, I would say how she made me feel so loved by her all the time!!  Family to my mother was number one, if we all could have lived in the same house even after we were all married and had children she would have loved that. Everyone together all the time! That was my mom!

Motherhood it’s a feeling, not a explanation! 

Happy Mother’s Day

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