MIDDLE LEAVES MIDDLE

Every day is important.

But many resemble each other.

The ones where everything and nothing happens.

We chug along.

Then there are days...

where irreversible changes occur.

Some are bad,

And some are really really good.

And sometimes...

in fact...quite often...

 they both happen in the same week.

Yesterday, my youngest graduated elementary

school.

He stands at the edge of that slippery slope called

adolescence...

where time beats the sound barrier.

And today, Phoebe

the middle child

graduates Middle School. 

I will now have TWO High Schoolers.

Whoa Nellie.

I have to chuckle when I watch the TV shows about people having babies.

How at the onset of this ride called parenthood

we need to know the answers to all of our questions?

"How long will it take?"

"Will it hurt?"
.....Forever....and Yes.

WE Agonize over ONE thing all day.

And then later...that one thing will be a slice, like a pixel

in a photo of an infinite number of pixels

That make a person.

And you sigh in relief that you are relatively in one piece.

It is ALL relative.

Congratulations Phoebe

You make this parenting thing an absolute joy.

You are who I want to be when I grow up. 

And like my Mom used to say

"I musta done something right!"

AH Mom.

You would be so proud.

FOREVER AND ALWAYS
DADDYS' LITTLE GIRL

XOXOXOXO