With the school year more than half over, my thoughts turned to the fact that after this summer, I will have two of my three children in school. The house that has been filled with the pitter pitter pitter patter of little feet will only have a single pitter of our 2-year-old.
My oldest will be in kindergarten, and our middle will be in preschool. The following year, our youngest will be in preschool and it will only be us. Alone. For the first time in six years, we will have the house all to ourselves.
I don’t know how to feel about all this. One part will enjoy the peace, quiet and time with my wife, and the other is going to miss the constant running and talking from the kids. It’s also a milestone. School brings projects, homework and extracurricular activities. There will be sports, Scouts and clubs.
It will all be totally different. They will be spending the night at friends’ houses and going to pool and birthday parties. I’ll stop being Daddy and turn into “the old man.” There will be cliques and girlfriends who I can’t stand. Their hearts will be broken and mended.
They are on their way to growing up. They will always be my babies, but school is the first major milestone that screams my boys are getting older. They will need me, but as the year’s roll on it will be for much less and different things. I’ll be the driver to get them where they need to go, and eventually, I won’t even be that anymore.
Off they go to college, get married and pretty soon, I am a grandparent. Wow, I go from first day of school to grandparent in a few paragraphs. Something tells me that’s exactly how fast the time is going to go. I am happy knowing that I savored every moment of their babyhood, and I look forward to a little peace and quiet and seeing what kind of men my “little men” grow up to be.
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