Do You Get Sad When You Finish A Chapter of Life?

[glass- slippers]

I am the sentimental type and often think about something being the last time I do this or that. For instance, at Christmas time I thought about it being the last year with a child living at home. December sure will be different without my active teen daughter here and the whirlwind that she brings. Now, I see I have passed it on to her. She was in a drama performance this weekend, and she realized it was the last time she would ever perform in her high school lecture hall. It brought tears, and I shake my head seeing she is just like me. Do you know what I mean?

This is so me! My ds is away at college, but next year will be studying abroad in Italy, so I won't see him at all for an entire year DD is graduating eight grade this year and going to high school, so I'll probably be the weepy Mom at the graduation ceremony Change is hard for me I still miss when they were babies

 

[Saphire]

Thank you everyone for responding and empathisizing with me. It is good to know you are all out there, understanding how hard it is to complete a happy and wonderful time of life. I am about to embark on a milestone, my youngest child going off to college, and it is particularly bitter-sweet to experience all the 'lasts' during her senior year. I am sure you will be hearing from me again.