This week isn’t about paint or crafts or diy or mason jars.
It’s about caps and gowns and fancy dresses and khaki pants and button down shirts and ties. It’s about processions and diplomas and pomp and circumstance. And parties.
Oh, and tears. Lots and lots of tears.
Yes, I’m stocking up on tissues.
It doesn’t seem fair that I’ll be subjected to the ugly cry not once … but twice … in a single week.
First as we celebrate this young man’s graduation from high school.
I’ll be honest, I’m in denial. I’m pushing down those crazy feelings of panic and anxiety and … is that despair mixed with fear … that keep trying to bubble up from within. Because if I let them surface, I’ll be a puddle of mush.
I’m hoping to hold all those feelings at bay. Until the very last moment , after we settle him in at college and hug and kiss and say our goodbyes for the hundredth time over and can no longer postpone the inevitable departure. When we leave him there and head back home. And as we drive away, I’ll break down. Ugly sobs and all. All the way back to Chicago.
No, no, no. I will not succumb as I write this.
On Friday, this young lady bids adieu to elementary school.
And all those feelings of fear and anxiety and dread will try to bubble up again. And I’ll squash them down too. Until the very first day of high school.
Will you please pass me a tissue?
🙂
Oh…don’t worry….I’m close enough, I’ll drive you down a couple of boxes of tissues! They do grow up fast don’t they? Congrats to the graduates! 😉
Thank you so much! I may need a Costco-sized case … or two … of tissues this week! 🙂 Linda
Enjoy every minute (and phone if you need tissues…I’ll drive). A year of “lasts” will soon give way to a year of “firsts” for ALL OF YOU! Hugs and CONGRAT’s….you’ve made it to not one but TWO graduations! Make way for college shopping! xx
I was just thinking that a trip to Ikea is in order very soon! Thanks for your words of encouragement, my friend! They mean so much from someone who has been there …and is still there! 🙂 Linda
Awww. 🙂
Congrats to both and awww poor mommy. 🙂
*hands over handkerchief*
Congrats to both. I love you.
🙂
sniff, sniff. Congrats to your son. Hang in there mom!
Beautiful Kids!
Thank you!!!
I am new to your website. Looking at the chalk wall calendar. My first born just graduated from high school as well. He is off to college in August and every day I think about what it will be like in the house without him. There will be two brothers still home but I still can’t wrap my head around him leaving. I know just how you feel. Hang in there, I’m in Kansas City so I won’t be bringing you Kleenex but I’ll be with you in spirit.