These feelings usually begins for me around August 1.  There is a change in the sunlight, the sun sets a little bit earlier, the nights get cooler and every where you look there are back to school ads.  I hate that time of year.  I love having my kids home for the summer, even though we are out of a routine and sometimes they get bored, they are still my babies and I enjoy having them around.  They have friends over, we go on vacations, we stay up late and watch movies, go for bike rides, go out for ice cream, have play dates.  All those fun things you are supposed to do when it is summer.

I am also in major denial that they are getting older.  Just like when I start to feel that sadness for their last days of school  It means another year has passed and they are growing older.  I know we are supposed to be proud of that but I struggle with it.  I’m sorry, I just don’t want my babies to get much older than they are right now! So if there is a magic pill that can stop time and aging, I’d like to order some please.

Adrienne is going into a new school for third grade and Kevin is attending his last year at the school for fifth grade.  Don’t even get me started for what is to come next year with middle school.  I am already getting anxiety with those thoughts that creep into my head.

So as I look back at last year’s first day of school pictures I can’t believe we will be taking our first day pictures in just a few weeks.  So I will do whatever I can to drag out these last few weeks of summer vacation.  The kids have had an excellent summer.  Their last day of school ended very early in June so this was the longest summer break they have had.  We did a lot of fun things, too.

What do you do to try to help deal with this lightning speed thing called life and growing up?