It's been so good having Reed home for the last six weeks, but I swear about two weeks in I was already pre-sad that he would be leaving again in August. Not to mention that once Amy is back to school in August, we will hardly see her, and then a year from now she will be off to college too.
Sure it's the natural order of things, and the way it's all supposed to go, but that doesn't mean it can't still be difficult and sad! You spend all these years having these people around you every single day, and then suddenly (if you can call "after 18+ years" 'suddenly') you're just supposed to let them go? What kind of insanity is this? It just feels kinda lonely is what I'm saying.
Of course I want Reed and Amy to be successful adults, living on their own, but man it is it an adjustment to our lives as parents to think about that. I wonder how often we'll get to see them, how often we'll talk, where they're live, whether they'll be okay, whether we'll be around to be part of their lives.
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| Something clever about the Circle of Life here |
I suppose all we can do is to prepare them, and ourselves, as best as we can for the different seasons life brings us.
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