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Tomorrow....Middle School....

Sunday, 17 August 2008 00:00

That's right...somehow tomorrow TJ starts middle school. I will never figure out where all the time went. Just yesterday, his toothless grin stared up at me smiling. Today he looks in my eyes...level.... he's getting so big!

I dread middle school FAR more than he does. He is excited; I am scared. He can't wait to make new friends; I fear for what he may learn. Yet it is in these moments that we find out how we are doing as parents; and far more importantly, how our children are doing as individuals. Beginning tomorrow, he will have a new sense of freedom; a freedom that can bind him in an unorganized mess or that can set him free to figure out what his passions are. I will let go a little starting tomorrow, although I must admit, what I want to do is cling onto him for dear life.

All the training I have given him, all the prayers, all the encouragement comes down to 8:15 tomorrow morning when he gets on that bus and leaves for what I can only describe as pre-pubescent hell. I will worry myself sick tomorrow already knowing that he will come home brimming with excitement about all the things that happened that day.

He is growing up and i am so stinkin proud of him I cannot put it into words. I love his heart and his mind. I love to watch the way he loves life. I have no doubt he will become the man God wishes him to become. Now, we just have to get ME through this middle school stuff.

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