I am dreading Fall.
My baby will be going to school. I’ve had one pre-schooler or another with me almost all the time for nearly fifteen years.
I will be a total wreck on the first day of school. Then I think I’ll take a three hour uninterrupted bath. :)
wait til your oldest leaves for college... i just went through that this past fall. she is a 3 hour plane ride away from me. technology makes it much different than it was in our day: text msgs, IMs, email and cellphones. we talk as much as we ever did, we are just not in each other’s physical presence.
It is so difficult for me seeing my kids grow up (too fast!). There seems to be an inate unfairness that our job is to raise them so that they can leave us and live on their own. My kids (teens now) are very loving and kind, but they are also fiercely independent since they were very young. It about killed me when they started school for the first time with nothing more than a “bye mom!”
I of course want them to be as independent as they are (I raised them that way), but as a mom sometimes it hurts my heart knowing that in only a few short years they won’t be here in the house all the time.
I adore having teenagers... We have the best conversations and my son is so tall now he can reach the top of the shelves for me. He jokes that I only had him so he could reach stuff for his short mother. Lol
Oh, that will be sad when your last baby goes to school! (Maybe time to have one more??? ;))