It's the last two months of school, and the last season of sports for Erin. This year we've been to tennis matches, swim meets and now, soccer games. It blows my mind that she's probably going to finish third in her class and can also make All Region and All State in Choir, participate in the Teacher Cadet program and sing at church on Wednesdays. She's been nominated for a local sports award in each of her sports this year, but she won't have to be recognized there, she's had a FULL high school EXPERIENCE!
Today was Senior Skip day...she slept until 10:30, let me take her to lunch (that was my idea!), played at the park with her friends, went to a short soccer meeting, and then addressed graduation announcements. She's been in a group message ALL DAY with a new group of friends that will be in the Honor's College at UCA. She gets out of school on May 1st, Richard and she will take her Senior trip sometime the next week, THEN, she'll go to orientation at UCA on the 20th and 21st. I'll be out of town the next day when her dad will drive her to camp to work for 10 weeks. Then, college. And POOF all my big kids will be GONE.
I choked up a bit about this today. I'm not even sure what it will look like with only 3 children at home, and no teenagers to help with driving, childcare, meal prep and everyday things. We'll have 3 young children that need parenting, teaching, homework help, shuttling everywhere and well, attention. I'm the mom and that's my job, but I've had a lot of help over the years from our big kids. Even more this last year with Rich traveling, I've developed more than a parent/child relationship with Erin. We're friends. And I'm really going to miss having her here.
