School Days

This morning as we were getting ready for school it hit me.  This is the last time I will see our son get on the school bus for his first day of school. He's 16 and 4 months, a junior, so by every right he should have his license by now.  But he's still 8 hours away from earning it, and I'm okay with that (50 hours with a permit are needed in our state to obtain your driver's license).

I've enjoyed running him to his band camp practices the past two weeks, savoring those little conversations you don't always get with a man-child. Often they're too quiet, busy playing their game system or messing on their phone to pay attention to what mom has to say.  But every once in a while the light breaks through the clouds and you have those sweet little talks like when they were little.  And at this point in life, you grab on to those moments and tuck them away for memories that will be needed later down the road.

I hope your children have a great year of school making memories that will last a lifetime.  Not necessarily only for themselves, but for you, sweet mama, who will need to recall them on those lonely, quiet mornings where you wonder where the time has gone.  They say too often that you'll blink and before you know it your children will be grown, and then one day you realize it's true.  It's not the end of the story, just the beginning of a new chapter.  So take hold of what you have today, and remember:  As the pastor of our church says, "Our greatest days are just ahead"!