Does this little face look like it's old enough to drive? I don't think so!!! But much to my chagrin, Victoria and I, accompanied by her big sister Alex, drove 40 minutes to the Drivers Facility to get her license before she went to school this morning. While some say I will love my new found "time" and "freedom," (and I'm sure I will when I get used to it) I am feeling slightly sad and melancholy. My littlest girl is on her own. She can drive to school and home without me. She can go to the mall by herself. (The small mall, close to our home. I'm not ready for the big one just yet!) She can even go tanning without parental involvement. Oh dear!
Tori and I celebrated our last drive home together with a little ritual yesterday. While she is so excited to be driving and growing up, she is conscious of the loss of time we will share as our driving here and there and everywhere comes to an end. "Mommy, I am worried about you. What are you going to do with your life now? You won't have me to center it around. You will be bored!" While she is not quite as grown up as she may think she is today (she forgot her social security card and "Mommy" had to drive back home to get it) she is definitely on her young way.
It's a time of excitement AND a time to say goodbye. "Goodbye my little one. May your roads be safe and your travels blessed. I love you forever."
As you know, I so feel your melancholy on this one. I sit home alone tonight with Mr. Mom at tennis and Kate at Parker's ballgame in a nearby town (she DROVE him!).
In less than three months, she's now driving everywhere. Oh my, oh my, oh my. What will we do?
Posted by: Mayberry Magpie | May 28, 2009 at 07:36 PM
OMG Kathy I can't stop looking at those pictures. She was & is SO adorable!!!
And once again I am so DEEPLY moved by your relationship w/ your daughters & your son! The pieces of conversation that you share here is just SO precious! It speaks SO much to you & to them!
I would be a bit concerned if you just felt relief at this transition. Tho' many do.
Kathy, your heart speaks deeply thru every word you write & every single thing you create! It is what I love most about you!!!
Posted by: Cyndee Greene | May 28, 2009 at 08:41 PM
Lovely photographs and story... it is sad when they get their driver's liscences... but happy too, my son got his a month ago... Roxanne
Posted by: rivergardenstudio | May 29, 2009 at 11:58 AM
Now this makes me cry. The forever kind of tears.
Posted by: Karen Maezen Miller | May 29, 2009 at 05:39 PM
Kath, OMG, The Chair!I remember and love the times I used to help pose and try to get Ron's kids to smile...That was a GREAT job!!. I can see Victoria as a beautiful child and I see exactly the same as she "grows up". "These ARE the best times of our life!"
Posted by: Laurel Femiano | June 02, 2009 at 06:19 PM