Ethan Says Farewell

The 2011-2012 school year has once again come to an end. The kids go home with a lot more knowledge and the teachers with a sigh of relief that they survived another year.

As a mom, when your kids are babies you look forward to the next phases in your child's life. Crawling, walking, talking, sleeping through the night, eating baby food, then solid food. You anxiously wait for their personalities to develop. Who will they act like? Who will they look like? You can't wait for them to grow...and get older. Then one day you wake up and realize years have flown by and now your overcome with sadness. Sadness that your child, in my case, my first born, is no longer a little boy. He's turning into a young man. In 2 years he'll be a teenager. You still want to look into the future, to see what it holds, but now for different reasons. Will he go to college? Will he marry and move far away? Will he still love you as the only girl in his life(minus the baby sister)? Thoughts, that as a mother, scare me to pieces.

When I was in school, you were of elementary age until you ended 6th grade. Now, this day and age, most elementary schools only go to 5th. Why? I say it's just another way for corporate America and the government to make our children grow up even faster. Whatever it is, I hate it.

I do look forward to his future. Just miss my baby boy. He's a bright kid, full of spunk and the determination of a king. I know he'll do great.

So, as of today, May 31, 2012, Ethan rolls into summer happy, excited, full of spirit and nervous of the future to come...and says a final farewell to his elementary school career.