I’ve mentioned before that one of the benefits of having your children attend such a small school is that everyone knows everyone… I guess that’s both good and bad.  That also means that everyone knows everyone’s business too… or at least we think we do. As parents, the good outweighs the bad.  We have a great advantage by knowing the other kids at school and their families.  I love it when the yearbook arrives each year.  I know everyone in it… and it is so much fun to go through and see the pictures.  It also brings me incredible joy when I recognize some of those pictures as my own.  It makes me feels as though I really have participated.  It is especially heart-warming to see so many of my pictures in the senior ads.  I am so honored to have them think that my photographs are significant enough to share space on such an important sentiment of their high school experience.  I’m not naive.  I know they don’t pick the pictures thinking… “Gee, I’ll include this one because Mrs. Rocha took it.”  I know it’s the subject, not the photographer… but that is really the ultimate compliment.  It’s proof that I got it right… the moment, the feeling and the shot.  I did my job.

(If you look closely, you can see the student’s names etched into the cover.  They are in order of class and extend around to the back cover. Way cool.)