My oldest daughter, Megan, will begin her Senior year of high school tomorrow. I’m in denial. I have seen her Senior pics and still deny the fact that this is her last year of high school. After all, she is still my baby. Who the hell does she think she is growing up so fast? It was just the other day I was bathing her in that little tub over the sink, wasn’t it?
Makenzie, who is supposed to be the baby, has decided all of a sudden that she doesn’t want boobies anymore and is pretty much potty training herself. Does she not know I don’t need this right now? Especially with Megan going into her Senior year? I was supposed to have at least a few more months of her being a baby! How dare her.
Madison is starting her final year of middle school. She was the baby for ten years. How the hell can she be in the 8th grade and taller than me when only yesterday okay, so it was 13 years ago I was having an u/s to find out what she was?
And Devin is pretty much self sufficient at 3 1/2. He tells me all the time “I can do it, Mommy!” When did that happen? He was just bouncing in a jumperoo a few days ago, wasn’t he?
There is a man walking around my house everyday… he calls himself Dakota. He looks nothing like my Dakota though. My Dakota is a little guy that unfortunately looks just like my ex, and is afraid of thunderstorms. He just can’t have grown into a young man overnight, could he?
That old saying about your kids growing up in the blink of an eye is no joke. In the hurried moments of life as I’ve known it, all of my children have grown and changed right before my eyes and I feel like I haven’t even noticed. I’ve been with them almost every moment of their lives and I still feel like I’ve missed it.
I’m usually so excited for the kids to go back to school. I’m normally the mom you see dancing around Walmart singing “It’s the most wonderful time of the year” as we buy school supplies. But this year, not so much. I’ve been sad all day. We’ve had such a wonderful summer together- going to the pool, visiting the zoo, and just hanging out… it’s all gone too fast. And I know this school year will also fly by and before I know it we will all be a little older and I will be the mother of a graduate, with several more graduates right behind her.
If only I had a time machine. I’d stop time in its tracks… but alas I don’t. So I’ll just continue to be the Queen of Denial and try to remember to cherish every moment as it happens~
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That was so good. Time does fly by.
wow school starts for you tomorrow. we have a whole month here. i just been looking at my school supply list. i am also sad as my oldest boy is starting middle school and i am just not ready
I’m not dancing in the store this year either! My baby is going off to K and I am rather sad about it…it goes by much too quickly.
*hugs to you*
Wow, you’re at such a different stage in your life with your kids than I am. I have a 3 year-old and a baby. I can’t imagine him even going to 1st grade, and yours will be a SENIOR!!! Enjoy evey moment as they say, right?
You are SO right; you blink and it’s gone!
Oh Michelle, you made me all teary. My boys are already growing fast and the idea that sometime soon they will be two young men stomping around my house amazes me. I’m cherishing the lego on the floor and fights over dress up items even more this morning. (BTW, X is going into Kindergarten in September and I can hardly believe it.)