She’s a big girl now
Kait is, right now as I type this, taking her driver’s permit test. She was nervous last night. I’m nervous this morning.
I’m just not ready for this.
The thought of her getting married is more okay with me than this.
And that’s funny because Ryan is just the opposite. He’s perfectly fine teaching Kait to drive, but doesn’t want to hear a word about the high probability of her getting married some day.
So I’m just sitting here waiting for word. Has she finished? Did she pass?
And most importantly, how did her picture turn out?
When she was 5 she lost her first tooth.
Wait, wasn’t that just yesterday?
I always said to her, “when you’re big…”, but I don’t think I believed that would actually happen.
But now she is big.
I can’t believe I have to, I get to go through this all over again 7 more times.
It’s beautiful and it’s sweet.
And it’s agony.
Tagged with: This Life • with a picture
Filed under: Uncategorized
Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!
It is an amazing roller coaster of emotion isn’t it? I’ll be interested in hearing how it differs from daughters to sons…we are training them up in such different ways so I imagine the perspective and the emotions it evokes is slightly different.
I think it will be differently for my boys, but just as hard.
And, maybe, is the answer to your other question.
I know how you feel…well, sorta.
Halie just got her actual driver’s license yesterday.Yep. She’s sixteen (as of 18 September) and is legally driving as of yesterday! Craziness!
I haven’t known her since she was born, but even still, it still is hard to grasp.
There certainly is grace for Mamas who don’t find it tangible that their little ones are growing oh so quickly… =)
Love you!
It is crazy, isn’t it! It seems to just sneak up on us when we aren’t looking.
I’ve been waiting and waiting…
How did she do?!?!?
She did fine and now has a shiny new permit. It actually appears that she is a natural driver – or so my husband says. He’s the one teaching her and he expected it to be a little scarier, I think.
Permission to speak?
Driving was surprisingly simple. It’s so funny; I expected to be scared when driving, but really the fear doesn’t come until after I get home and I think “Whoa…I just drove through town.”
I’ve driven a total of 40 minutes, and half of that was on main roads. I really enjoy driving when the roads aren’t busy…but put more than 10 cars around me and I’m like “Okay okay, just calm down. yeah, okay. blinker. No! Wrong blinker! Okay, okay, other blinker. Is that guy behind me still? Okay, okay…”
😉
[meanwhile, mom covers here ears, shuts her eyes, and sings very loudly, “lalalalala”.]