Wasn’t it just yesterday?

My son just came home from school and said, " I can’t believe I am done with high school!"  He can’t believe it, I can’t believe it.  Wasn’t it yesterday he was just born and I remember looking down at him crying, thinking he is never going to grow up?  Wasn’t it just yesterday when I sent him off to Kindergarten worried he would get lost on the playground?  Wasn’t it yesterday when we moved to a new house and he had to start a new school in 3rd grade and it didn’t even bother him one bit?  Wasn’t it yesterday when he finished elementary school and moved on to middle school.  Three years that flew by so fast I don’t even remember it.  Wasn’t it just yesterday when I was worried to death that you were going to get lost in the large high school?  I thought how is he going to find his way around that place.  By the end of the summer I will be saying, now he is going off to college in a new state, a new town and a very large school.  Now I am worried!   He is 4.5 hours away from us.  Anything that comes up will have to be solved over the phone, or he will have to figure it out himself.   Why do kids have to grow up so fast?  It truly is bittersweet for me.  I am proud of him for doing so well all of his short 18.5 years of life.  He has accomplished way more than I could have ever imagined.  I loved having him around the house and couldn’t have dreamed of having such a carefree, compassionate, kind, considerate, loving child.  That is why I will dearly miss him when he heads off to college this fall.  It will be a difficult time for me in the months ahead knowing my days with him around the house will be dwindling down.  Once boys usually leave they don’t really come back for a long period of time.  I saw it in my husband and my brothers.  It’s a shame because I am really going to miss him being around.  But I am happy he is moving on with his life and search his soul for what he really wants to be the rest of his life.  And for that I couldn’t be more proud.
Now I need to sit and write him a letter about how proud of him I really am.  I am sure there will be alot of tears streaming.

Me