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#81446 - 04/14/06 05:08 PM getting closer
Dotsie Founder Registered: 07/09/08 Posts: 23647 Loc: Maryland	Most of you know I have two high school seniors. I feel the end getting closer. Already, there's a prom next weekend. From then through June 1st the activites will roll out. I am very happy for the kids, and happy for Ross and I too because we'll have more time to ourselves, BUT...I can't believe this stage is coming to an end. It went so quickly. Did any of you tear at the thought of their graduations? Yesterday I received an email from someone who also has a senior at another school. They do a senior appreciation day. Friends and loved ones fill out forms and they are delivered to the kids in honor of them. I filled up as I read it. What's gotten into me?
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#81447 - 04/15/06 02:05 AM Re: getting closer
downdog Member Registered: 03/18/06 Posts: 81 Loc: kansas	Tear up? I bawled like a baby. Was good though, I got it out before the actual ceremony so that I didn't embarrass my daughter! I have 2 girls, one already off in college the other to graduate this May also (then she's off to boot camp with Air Natl Guard) It is hard to see them move on with their own lives when they've been the center of ours for so long. I remember tearing up when I dropped them off for Kindergarten, now this...
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#81448 - 04/15/06 02:53 AM Re: getting closer
chatty lady Writer Registered: 02/24/04 Posts: 20267 Loc: Nevada	Oh heck I cried for days before and days after my two wanted to leave home and get a place with a buddy or girlfriend. My youngest son enlisted in the Marines and that nearly killed me even though we weren't at war but he wanted the Seals or special forces wherever the action was. My sons have been gone fvrom my home for many many years now and I still miss the hell out of them. I wish we had a huge home and could share it and share in each others lives but alas we don't raise our children for that I guess....We raise them to be independent and able to care for themselves and their familys without us....boo-hoo!!!
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#81449 - 04/15/06 05:03 AM Re: getting closer
Sherri Member Registered: 03/12/04 Posts: 1177 Loc: Decatur, Illinois	I bawled and bawled and that's all I could think of for nearly five months. Especially when my youngest left home for the Navy, I wanted to just curl up and cry until there was nothing left. It's part of growing up and moving on, but it still hurts, they are our babies! Sherri
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#81450 - 04/16/06 01:52 AM Re: getting closer
downdog Member Registered: 03/18/06 Posts: 81 Loc: kansas	I find it interesting that families did all live together under one roof (or on the same land) decades ago, than came the luxuries of the American Way, electricity, cars, air travel, now we can be more independent families/people and we don't need each other so much. I thing technology is great but it kind of makes you wonder what we gave up to get so far? Funny thing is I wouldn't be thinking this way when I was 20/30 something!
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#81451 - 04/19/06 10:05 PM Re: getting closer
Dotsie Founder Registered: 07/09/08 Posts: 23647 Loc: Maryland	downdog, the sad truth of the matter is that I beleive we still need one another. We're making it less possible due to the mobility of society.
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#81452 - 04/21/06 12:07 AM Re: getting closer
leigha Member Registered: 02/21/05 Posts: 211 Loc: british columbia	I WAS UPSET FOR A YEAR WITH TEETH AND GUM PROBLEMS WHEN MY SON LEFT FOR ALBERTA FOR A YEAR. It was great shock to me.I LOVE HIM SO MUCH! Thank GOD he came home and realized the paradise of the mountains we live in, even though we're somewhat isolated.HIS APRECIATION FOR FAMILY GREW, HE DIDN'T JUST SEE CHORES. LOVE LEIGHA
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#81453 - 04/21/06 03:11 AM Re: getting closer
chatty lady Writer Registered: 02/24/04 Posts: 20267 Loc: Nevada	Bless his heart. Some time a child has to leave a place to realize how important and wonderful it is to them...chores and all!!! [ April 20, 2006, 08:12 PM: Message edited by: chatty lady ]
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#81454 - 04/22/06 06:35 PM Re: getting closer
Dotsie Founder Registered: 07/09/08 Posts: 23647 Loc: Maryland	Leigha, you must have something special going on there. How old is he now?
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#81455 - 04/23/06 03:55 AM Re: getting closer
leigha Member Registered: 02/21/05 Posts: 211 Loc: british columbia	HE'S 23 NOW. I JUST LOVE HIM SO MUCH! LOVE LEIGHA
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