Ya’ll may think I’m crazy but I love tradition =)

So tonight we arrived home to find our house had been TP’d. Don’t panic, we actually knew it was going to happen.

See, here in our little town, when you are on the swimming and diving team at the local high school you are entitled to a senior week in your final year. The freshman-juniors have a different event planned for each night in the senior’s honor. Monday night they bake a cake for each senior, Tuesday night they make you a pasta dinner, Wednesday they TP your house, Thursday is the senior breakfast, and Friday they honor the seniors at the meet, make you a candy poster and then there’s the senior night after party. My younger sister Jen is at that point. She has been on the diving team since her freshman year and spent the last three years honoring her upperclassmen. Now it’s her turn. So we knew this was all happening and we were happy to allow it because of tradition. I love this time of year, it’s all in good fun so it really becomes about how WELL you can do the job.

You see, I was a swimmer in high school but stopped swimming in my senior year to go the way of doing my photography and being editor for the yearbook etc. I am happy to admit that I TP’d many a home in those first three years and we were GOOD. We use to fork the lawns, saran wrap the cars, all that good stuff on top of Tp-ing. However I never got the right to be Tp’d in my senior year, I missed that right of passage. But tonight, those girls included a little something that gave me my senior night back, the senior night I never got.

SO while ya’ll may think I’m a little crazy for smiling when I see my house covered in toilet paper, I was happy about it, I like tradition =)