Having teenagers makes me feel like time is running out. It’s like this window of time where as a parent you are supposed to teach them about responsibility, life, adulthood and independence - it’s becoming smaller and smaller with each passing day. I could be putting myself out of a job and let’s face it the pressure is real. It was a regular busy weekday and I was driving one of my kids to their after school extracurricular activity, and I thought how simple our life seemed in the past. The mind can play tricks on you because every season has it’s difficulties. And yes, it’s so hard to know when it’s all going to pass. The passing of time and it’s oppressively constant journey into the unknown is my mind wanting to live in a past that I can never get back. So as I dropped my daughter off I tried really hard to just make an imprint of this mundane moment. Of her walking off into the distance to join her friends with her ponytail swinging and that "“the future is bright skip”. Here’s to being super excited about the future and all the things it’s going to bring your one wild and precious life.
For this lovely family and her mama who I know feels the pressure too.
Much love,
SM
