Yesterday morning we all overslept and I had to take my oldest daughter to school, which was fine since it was my off Friday.

So, I dropped off my daughter, who is in the 9th grade and as I watched her walk towards the school it dawned on me that my first born is now in high school. It was the strangest feeling.

I felt a million emotions all at once. I felt sad because in 4 years she’ll be off to college and starting her own life and I will miss seeing her every single day; I felt happy because she is really turning out to be a lovely young lady; I felt scared because in getting older comes greater difficult life choices; I felt excited just wondering about the things she’ll do in her life and I felt so proud just to be her mother and more than that I was in total shock realizing 14 years have gone by and my first born is really in high school. AMAZING!

Time really does fly and I am glad that I made it a priority throughout my kids lives to be as involved as I possibly can because at that moment when I dropped her off at school, I realized that your kids truly do grow up so fast; right before your very eyes and every moment you spend with them is precious and can never be taken for granted.

Photo on the left:
My daughters first day of high school (Sep ‘07)

Photo on the right:
My daughters first high school homecoming (Oct ‘07)