#tbt

This one is getting ready to graduate.

 

9 days old

I attended the initial “interest meeting” for a homeschool-parent-planned graduation ceremony.

2 weeks old

One of the many benefits of homeschooling is that you get to collectively pick the date for high school graduation, which is proving tricky, not least because my eldest is graduating from college at the same time.

7 weeks old

I was recently discussing with a friend with a son of similar age how much having a child who can drive is helpful overall.

2 months old

As in, yes, she can get herself where she needs/wants to go, AND she can take her siblings places…but it also rapidly multiplies how many places she wants/needs to go, leaving my middle-aged head spinning to try to remember where everyone is at any given moment and who needs a ride from whom.

13 months old

What with extra appointments and Caleb’s soccer team unexpectedly deciding to practice at the field a gazillion miles away from us, we told Ada she had to come home after her morning work/classes and pick up Lizzy for volleyball, lest I completely lose my mind.

That time one of the times she was hospitalized for wheezing, almost 2 years old

I realize—especially as she shortly celebrates her eighteenth birthday—that it’s tiresome to clear every detail of her life with her mom first, especially when her mom’s addled brain can’t remember anything without immediately writing it down.

Home from the hospital

Ah, youth, with its intrepid thirst for adventure that drives us to fly the nest. I, too, at seventeen, wanted nothing more than to strike out and do All The Things with All The People. 

And then I met my one person, and my greatest desire became to settle down.

4 years old

And then I procreated four other people. And now my greatest desire is to wear pj’s and leave the car parked in the garage.