Turn Around

[Saphire]

I have watched my sons grow into amazing young men and leave our home. Now here I am, on the verge of releasing my daughter, and I am so overwhelmed. She left tonight to go to a friends house. She looked at me and said "are you ok, Mom?". I said "yes, have a great time." But inside some old song was playing, and as I shut the door I cried.

Where are you going my little one, little one
Where are you going my baby my own
Turn around and you’re two, turn around and you’re four
Turn around and you’re a young girl going out of my door

Please comfort me, parents of an empty nest.

 

[wilderness01]

 

[pearlieq]

"Turn around and you're tiny. Turn around and you're grown. Turn around and you're a young wife with babes of your own"

Grandkids!!! There's your upside!

 

[Poohbear123]

Been there......

 

[TheGoofster]

Right now would probably not be the best time to listen to "Sunrise Sunset" from Fiddler on the Roof

 

[Saphire]

Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears



Ack, I know that there are so many other things to worry about and so many other things that are more painful, but the circle of life stuff makes me so melancholy. Thanks for listening.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Sometimes when they are little, crying infants it seems that those baby years will never pass. And then they are toddlers getting into everything and we know they will never grown up. But the years pass so fast. I have one daughter in college, one son a junior in high school, a son who is in 8th grade, and my little caboose who is in first grade. The years have passed by so fast. How can they have gotten old so fast, but I have stayed so young?

 

[disneymom3]

Hmmm, well my words of comfort for you are that now you are entering an era of being friends with your kids. My mom never cried at any of my sisters weddings, but she did cry at mine. A LOT! I am the youngest of 8 and I am sure she was feeling like you are. Before I was married we were already pretty good friends and companions, but after I got married and she knew she really could stop parenting (even though you never stop being mom or needing mom) then we really started having fun.

Hugs!

 

[Saphire]

Thanks, you guys. It doesn't help that DS is packing all his stuff by the front door to take back to college. This is such a weird time of life. They are between learning to take care of themselves completely and needing the comfort of home. And here we are (DH and myself) watching it all happen as we love them, support them, let them go, let them rest at home, then say goodbye again. It is wonderful, yet painful at the same time.

 

[annegal]

I can totally relate, saphire. My newly college graduated son is sending resumes all over the USA & the thought of him being far away is heartbreaking. But I know he has to go elsewhere to pursue his specialized career goal, ((sigh))

 

[Mickey527]

I am sitting here right now in my bedroom with my grandson sleeping in his little cars bed right next to me.
I sang that song to him tonight before he fell asleep. I remember singing it to his daddy too.
The one thing that helps is that I get to enjoy my grandson, so even though his daddy grew up so fast I can see it again, only slower this time.
I have a poem about grandma that says Grandma is never in a hurry, she has time to look at bugs with me. Nicky's favorite thing to do is walk to the end of the street and sit on the sidewalk watching cars and busses drive by.
I am going to make sure that I have the time to spend with Nicky because I didn't when his daddy was growing up and I was in nursing school and working too hard.
Unfortunately for Nicky he has a not so great mom so he is with me 4-5 nights a week while daddy works, and every day until daddy wakes up, but that is a bonus for me. Peggie

 

[AuntieM03]

I can't imagine being a mom. My niece is graduating this year and memories of her as a little girl keep flashing thru my mind. Half of the time these days on my way home from work I am tearing up. If I am like this with my niece I don't even want to think about what I would be like with my own.

 

[lajones81]

I can relate! I've been crying for a week now because my sister is leaving tomorrow morning! It's been an amazing journey watching her grow up and, frankly, I will miss having her around everyday. (Begins to cry...)

 

[Aidensmom]

Not even close to being where you are yet, but it doesn't often occur to me how much faster time seems to have gone since I had a child. Just yesterday it seems he was this oh so tiny little newborn, and all of a sudden he is in school and learning to read....where did the in between years go?