Today
I drop the Oglet off at high school for the very last time.
When did I get so old? Only this morning, it seems I held her sleeping in my arms.
Monday 12 May 2014
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I hear you. Still, when I drive past the HS, I feel a sense of loss that is illogical. D
Doesn’t make it any less real.
Yeah. This has been an emotional couple of weeks.
Yep. And that feeling will hit at odd times forever. Or at least as long as you both shall live.
If that is forever, so be it.
Just moved my daughter’s stuff home from Purdue for last time. Graduates next weekend. 22 years, where have they gone… She was born at St. Margaret’s, up in your neck of the woods, Og…
That’s the last one for me (of three); now an empty nester!
By the way, your writing recently, regarding your daughter, has been some of your better stuff.
No children of my own, but a lot of nieces and nephews. One niece (on wife’s side) I met when wife and I were dating, she was about four years old. Watched her grow thru her awkward stage where she was all knees and elbows. Last Thanksgiving I realized she’d grown into a stunningly beautiful 20 year old young lady. Not quite sure when that happened.
My middle son’s birthday today. He’s been out of the house for 9 years now. 6 spent in the Army….. I distinctly remember him standing in my boots when he was a toddler.
I flashed back 44 years ago last night. I was in first grade. Big tornado in Lubbock that Sunday night. Hit the ground about a mile NE of the house. Crawling under the house, listening to the radio station go off the air…. hearing the thunder. Crawled out, radio reporting damage, said all off duty police were to report in… didn’t see dad for 24 hours after that.
Lots a time gone by, but the memories are as vivid as if it were this morning.
ditto Dale… I’ve tried to read some of your Oglette tales to my wife, and I choke up routinely.
What amazes me. Is that despite our best efforts, most of our kids turn out alright. Still don’t understand how 6 boys and 1 daughter managed to survive my attempts at parenting!
Hug em and love em….and if need be…extract your “revenge” by spoiling the (future) grandkids!
+1 on Guy… sigh… Mine are 34 and 32…