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I saw a meme the other day that referred to this month as “May-cember” because of all the end-of-school-year chaos that occurs. If you have school-aged children at home, may God give you grace during this busy time! 🙂

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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: EXTRA

Setting my timer for five minutes, and . . . GO. 

Today was a milestone day at our house. Our youngest of three children completed the final day of his K-12 educational career. The last day of high school.

When I got home this afternoon after running errands, I walked into the house and expected to see him doing homework on his laptop. And then I realized, he doesn’t have any more homework! Ever from this school!

No more school lunches. No more Christmas concerts. No more sporting events or parent teacher conferences.

The end of an era.

This past Sunday was Mother’s Day, and my daughter, who is living in an apartment out-of-state for the first summer ever, posted a photo collage of us on Instagram with pictures from when she was around six or seven. I saw it and replied, “Someone press rewind!”

As they say, when you’re raising kids, “the days are long but the years are short.”

And even though I wish I had extra time with each of them, I’m so grateful for the amazing kids the Lord has loaned to my husband and me for this brief moment in time. Through them, He has grown me and shaped me, molded me and changed me (including countless gray hairs).

So here’s to the end of an era, with a touch of melancholy but mostly gratitude to God for all He has done.

STOP.

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