Typically, I'd get a face, but I think he knows where I am these days, my heart tucked in somewhere between unbelief and amazement. That smile sends me off into a kaleidoscope of memory... light and color changing at every turn. While this moment seems the most beautiful, a quick turn reveals another view... and the first is gone.
The past two weeks he has been playing with the big kids... or so it seemed, when I dropped him off at the high school for band camp. As much as I have been waiting for this, it still seemed surreal. But Friday night, on the field, my field of musical, marching dreams, there was only reality. Auntie leaned over and said he doesn't even look little. Nope. He doesn't. He seems to fit right in. All good, all right.
His first day of high school, her last first day...
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oh friend. . .I'm right there with you! How did they grow up so fast? It has been just a moment in time!
Praying that all goes well for your kiddos~
Happy first day of school. It's our first day too . . . but my house doesn't get quiet when school starts for us. ;)
This is going to be a good year.
This made me tear up...I know you have been anticipating this day for a long time!
I hope you (and they) are able to enjoy every single minute of this momentous year!
xo
Oh, I feel you, Dawn. The joy you feel as they begin their year of high school together. The bittersweetness of it all.
Now I'm doing first days of her nursing job, of his junior year of college and his fourth grade year. Now I'm watching a granddaughter grow up right before my eyes. The kaleidoscope is changing the view quickly.
I must have blinked and Cam turned into a little man. Ninth grade looks all grown up....
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