Thursday, August 17, 2006
Am I aging as fast as they are?
Tommorow is the end of an era for my 2 boys. It will be Aaron's last day of elementary school at Foxboro and Aaric's last day of preschool at VCS. They are both really excited to be moving on to the next stage in thier lives and I am nervous about sending my babies to "bigger" schools. Next week we get to go to middle school orientation and kindergarden orientation all in one day. How did this all happen so fast? It seems like just yesterday that I enrolled Aaron at Foxboro. He was the giant kid in the class. Now there are lots of kids that are his size. So I wonder how he will feel being a small fish in a big pond. I know I'm scared!! So now Aaric gets to be the giant kid in kindergarden. I'm less afraid of that because he is going to the same teacher Aaron and Amanda had. She is an awesome teacher. I'm looking forward to helping in class and going on the fun fieldtrips. I just am having a hard time watching my baby boy go off to a big elementary school. How did he grow up so fast? I certainly don't want to forget Amanda. She's going to be in the 6th grade. So for at least one more year she's a big fish. No matter how old they are they will always be my babies.
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Hi Diane ~ Welcome to the blog world! As a mother of three, I can relate to what you posted. As a matter of fact, God is really working on me and my attention to my kids. It all started at when Rob Bell talked about how many times your kids have to call your name before you are truly paying attention to them, not what you were doing or what you need to do next, but to them.... looking forward to more insightful posts!
I'm totally crying...thanks :-)
I think all of the emotions from the past three months are flowing out of me as I think about Alex moving into middle school and all that step entails...and all the baggage I have from my middle school life and the choices I started to make there that led me down so many wrong paths.
Thank you JESUS that you have saved me...saved my kids and brought me beautiful friends like you Diane!
Time flies doesn't it. I have not experienced sending my kids off to middle school yet, I know that will be tough. But, they are growing up quick and that is around the corner. Diane and Jacqui, you have raised awesome kids up to this point and they will surely do great on this milestone move. Hang in there!
To see my best friend and wife post about her feelings our kids -- something that we rarely talk about face to face in the minutia of life and habit and monotony -- to see her loving spirit like a soft warm light in her hands as she offers it to us in this way is truly awesome and awe-inspiring.
Diane, I am amazed by you. You are breaking my paradigms, you are shattering my suppositions, you are destroying the bedrock upon which I built my assumptions.
You are loving and gentle and good. You are a light that shines on me, that shows me what I can't see, that warms me like a soft fire, that cures and soothes my weary heart.
I love you. You amaze me.
Dale
Diane, even as Zack becomes a junior in High School, and Jessi an 8th grader, I still like to gather them onto my lap when I can, (A bit harder with Zack, it's all knees and elbows) and I think they still like to be "gathered". I asked my mom recently, "Mom, do you still long to have me on your lap like you used to when I was little?" She answered with tears.
They will always be our babies, even when they become too big for our laps. But ultimately they belong to God, and I am so grateful in knowing the He is who I will entrust them to, a little more each year.
Hi mom! ilove how you talk so nice about us in public even wen we can be real pains in the tush!I love how you can always find the best you can in me and i greatly appreciate the fact that you are a great and loving mom!
Your daughter,
Amanda
Sandie,
You are so right !! I'll take it, age in exchange for wisdom and purpose.
its emotional. i know. even though i am not a mother. uh. what am i saying! well i am here for you.
we actually slow down in the aging process... #;`
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