Motherly Confusion

The rest of birthday week is winding down.
It stared off with a BANG
but the rest of it has been uneventful.
No thanks to work and school.

As I sat back and reflected,
I reminded myself of a very sad probability…
This may be Tay’s last
birthday week at home.

She starts school in September.
In Idaho.
She is on an assigned track.
Fall/Spring.
(Winter’s back home.)

Thank goodness I still have one at home.
I think I have to do this gradually!

It is a confusing time in my life as a mother…
loving them so much
that I want them to spread their wings,
loving them so much
that I want them stay close (forever).

And…
I am not ready to be an empty-nester.
It makes me sound SO old!!