H and 37 classmates (it’s the smallest med school in the country) got their diplomas yesterday, to multiple standing ovations and shouted huzzahs from all of us proud parents and friends. Sweet B was more interested in eating the program.

She was a champ, though, all day: at the ceremony, the reception, through the toasting and hugging (she especially liked the hugging), and later at the cheerily, glass-clinkingly celebratory dinner, where she was a lot less impressed by Dr. Mommy than by the beets.