Of course I'm wide awake, collecting the Spawn's fake eyelashes from the shower and discovering a stash of discarded acrylic nail tips on the windowsill in the living room.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, I swear.
In 4 short weeks she will be a high school graduate and I just can't fathom where the time has gone.
How quickly it has slipped by!
It seems like only yesterday I was finding discarded rubber bands from her braces all over the place and scraping dried slime from everything within a 10 ft radius of her.
And now....
Now I'm reminding her that she needs to sign up for a college orientation class and asking her when the last time she changed the oil in her car was.
I kind of miss those days when I'd do something embarrassing and I'd hear her little voice, out of nowhere, saying.... "I saw that."
Now I get conversations like...
"My car says I still have 10% oil life left. I'm good for a while."
"That's not how that works. You aren't supposed to wait until it hits zero."
"Who says?"
"The people who make cars and service them."
"They aren't driving my car."
"Ok. But soon, you won't be either."
"Funny, mom..."
It's going to be very weird around here when she leave for college. No sullen, moody, teenage angst.... Holed up in her room, on those rare occasions she is actually home. No random texts telling me she is going to a game or spending the night at a friend's house, no random friends showing up at the door looking for emergency tortillas.
I'll just have to cross that bridge when it comes, though.
Until then, happy Tuesday!
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A week from Friday my baby will have her bachelor's degree. Crazy how time flies.
I feel like, the older I get, the faster it flies. I'm choosing to believe I'm in the best years of my life now, the ME years. Years where I can finally make myself a focus and do the things I want to do. And, I fully intend to do so.
Good to hear from you again. You're one of my fav's! And I'm living the same life. Its spring musical time, then summer vaca (in TC), then she's off to college. I realize the last 18 years have gone by in a flash. I don't know if I will catch ten blur of the next few months.
It is about to be a blur, isn't it?? Between the summer job and activities with friends, they'll never be home. Before you know it, we'll be dropping them off at college wondering how the summer went by so fast.
Good to have you back blogging. It was hard to see mine leave for college. That is over now and it is worse to see her leave for good. You will get through it. It will take time and be different for a while.
It's going to feel weird, at first. I've never lived alone before. Even though she is gone all the time right now, she is still home every night, and I still watch for her and make sure she arrives home safely.
let me know if i can abate the lonely feelings ans entertain you from time to time
I will keep that in mind.
I hope the bridge crossing isn't too rough.
It's good to see you back blogging.
I think I'm going to be ok this time around. Part of me is excited to see her start her next chapter of life, and I think that helps. I know she isn't headed off to boot camp somewhere, she's headed to the next step of her journey, and I'll still be a part of it in a small way. Weekend visits and homesick moments.... LOL When my son left, he was just gone, and that devastated me.
She'll be texting you in panic when the engine gets cooked because she didn't take care of the oil 😂
And that's my fear! LOL
It definitely it's tough at first to take some getting used to. Quite a life transition really
I've been a mom, with at least one kid at home, for almost 31 years now. This will be a big transition for me.... Thankfully I'm in a much better head space now than I was when my son left for the Marines.