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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: FAST
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I know I’ve mentioned this recently, but I’m afraid it’s going to be a common theme for quite a while: My daughter is a junior in high school this year. When the calendar flipped to 2022 in January, I could hardly believe it . . . In August of THIS YEAR she will be a senior. A year of lasts and last chances.
Of course that means I’m doubting all the things I’ve ever taught her and questioning what I’ve missed. It means I’m keenly aware that our days living in the same house under the same roof are numbered. Soon she won’t have to wake up at 6:30am to go to school . . . soon everything will change.
I know this is the point of parenting — to raise them up and let them fly, independent birds in the sky. I also know this post is probably quite premature, since we still have time. But it just goes so stinkin’ fast.
When you’re parenting infants and toddlers, there’s a common phrase that says the days are long but the years are short. Boy, is it true. It feels like just the other day that she was carrying her baby doll and asking to watch Bella Dancerella on DVD.
As I ponder this final year before her graduation, this psalm comes to mind:
“Teach us to number our days,
    that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”Â
Psalm 90:12, NIV
May we number our days aright.
STOP.
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Yikes! I know how you feel! The summer after our oldest graduated, both girls worked in a different state at a summer camp. I’m not gonna lie. I moped and mourned for most of the summer. Savor each moment. Make memories together (we had Coffee Fridays and Hiking Thursdays). It’s fun to get to know the adult version of your kids.
As we live upon this earth,
we weren’t made to last,
but from the day of our birth,
time just goes so fast.
It seems like only yesterday
I was another man
who thought himself upon the way
to working out the plan
that God had surely made for him
(were not my prayers devout?),
but now it’s all gone gray and grim
and I can’t figure out
what I was so sure I’d know,
yesterday, so long ago.
As a mom of two college grads, I couldn’t be more proud. They are both doing exactly what God designed them to do.
Every phase of motherhood has its own rewards and heartaches. It’s best to embrace it all.
I feel this so much. We are graduating my son a year early and we homeschool, so many changes and life is just going soooooo fast.
This is so true! I’ve always said that each stage of motherhood is my favorite, but the letting go as they become adults is also the hardest.