You’ve heard of nesting behavior in pregnant women? Typically occurring in the fifth month of pregnancy, nesting is “an uncontrollable urge to clean one's house brought on by a desire to prepare a nest for the new baby, to tie up loose ends of old projects and to organize your world.” (Pregnancy Weekly) Well, this weekend I found myself participating in some reverse nesting behavior, interestingly enough, about four months before my “baby” is reborn into the brand new world of college.

Our motto at Beyond the Trees is that everyone has a story to tell, and one of our newest projects proves this is no exception. 

<----- Class participant and writing teacher at a coffehouse reading

You don’t have to spend a ton of cash to please the graduates in your life. Having been through one high school graduation I feel so much more prepared for my younger son's upcoming event. In 2007 I took careful notice of the gifts my older son and his friends received and loved and now I humbly offer these thoughts on gifts for the Class of 2010: