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For many households, graduation is a time of excitement and chaos as students prepare to don their caps and gowns and take the next step in their lives.

In the Davis household in Bossier City, there is a double dose of nervousness mixed with excitement as they prepare to graduate not only one student but two this weekend with daughter Elizabeth Davis graduating from Parkway High School today followed by her mother, Sheila Davis, graduating from LSU-Shreveport on Sunday.

The mother-daughter duo has been inseparable until now and they see this as another step in their journey together.

Sheila Davis said she is in a state of disbelief as she prepares to receive a bachelor's degree in psychology.

"It's surreal," she said.

The stay-at-home military wife and mother of four said she has chosen to devote her life to her family and enjoyed traveling, but it was a conversation several years ago that inspired her to go back to college.

"I had always wanted to go to college, but that ended up on the back burner to kids and the military," she said. "But I was having a conversation with a mother and we were discussing what you do after your kids go of to college, and it hit me that there's more to me than changing diapers and doing dishes."

That's when Sheila Davis determined she would follow her passion to become a counselor and get a psychology degree, beginning at the same time as Elizabeth was entering high school.

"It was a little weird at first to tell my friends that my mom was in school too, but now they all think it's really cool," she said.

What isn't always so cool is how she was able to interject her class work into being a mom.

"The running joke in our house is when she says, 'Research shows"»'" Elizabeth Davis said.

However, as much as they joke, Sheila Davis said Elizabeth is one of the key pieces to making her graduation possible.

"We were able to encourage each other," she said. "When she had a lot of homework, I knew what she was going through. She's always been my biggest cheerleader and I could not be more proud of her."