7.07.2006
Do you have your dress shoes? Yes, Mom.
Do you have pantyhose? YES, Mooom.
Do you have the i-pod; you're not going to lose the i-pod are you? Yes, I have it Mom and noooo, I'm not going to lose it. Mom, I have everything, really.
OK.
And such goes the conversation between myself and my live-in-nanny dearly-beloved-first-born. She just boarded a chartered bus and took off for a week at the National FCCLA conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Her parliamentary procedure team took first at state and now they're traveling to compete at the national level.
All I have to say is, "Why isn't she still wearing diapers and drinking from a sippy cup?" I can't believe they let babies 14 year olds travel without their parents like this.
I'm really going to miss that girl.
9 Comments:
Aw. She'll be back before you know it. Growing up is so bittersweet, isn't it?
Wow - you must be so proud! We have only had little tastes of that here.
I sure miss it when my "nanny" is gone, even overnight!
She WILL have a great time!
Will YOU?
I know, I want my kids to grow but ouch...so hard on us! Hope she has a great time!
Aaahh! They do grow up SO fast don't they!
Oh man...I'm in tears just reading that...I get so weepy just thinking about packing up my babies and taking them to college...their only 7 and 4. I'll be a mess when the real thing happens....
I always think of that moment in Anne of Green Gables when Matthew and Marilla put Anne on the train to college and Marilla says, "she'll get awful lonesome". Matthew corrects her, "You mean we'll get awful lonesome." Marilla nods her head in agreement and says those fully loaded words of love, "And can't help wishin' she'd stayed a little girl....." (sniffle, sniffle)
Okay...I need to get back to my housework...glad I still have a while before those days come. :)
Praying that she has a wonderful and safe week...our little neice is growing up.....
Well, mine are never going to be 14. We've already cleared that up long ago.
Bless your heart.
It is painful, isn't it? It doesn't get easier, does that cheer you up?
My heart goes out to you. I have three children who have moved on i.e. grown up and left home and one 14 year old boy at home who just recently got his conditional drivers license. They can get one here at 14 but we won't let him drive alone yet by any means but it was a sad day for me and a joyous one for him.
I missed him horribly when he went to senior high church camp and to be honest we run the church camp facility so he wasn't far, just not sleeping in his own bed. I am pathetic sometimes!
Michelle, believe me, I know EXACTLY how you feel, but trust me, it may never be "easy" but it DOES get "easier". Jonathan went to the same convention at her age,only in Philadelphia, so I arranged a family vacation there the same week! And again the next year in Chicago, then he and a schoolmate had to fly back to KC from Chicago (she was 18 so I guess it counted as an adult), pick up the FBLA sponsor and fly with her to Denver. He's gone to National FFA in Louisville the last 2 years to be in the band, and they were both week long trips. Honestly, it wasn't bad at all last week when both boys went to Nashville to FBLA nationals. It DOES get easier, but I sure was antsy to see them once they started home.
And Katherine's right - she WILL have a great time!
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