I’ve never thought about our ‘routine’ stuff having a finite ending until my mom who is 75 years old said to me during her last visit few weeks ago that we would see each other about 50-55 times if she were to die when she’s 80. That’s when it hit me. If I think of our ‘routine’ stuff like a summer vacation in this term, we only have 5 of those left with my oldest (until she goes to college), which seems not enough and I’m not ready! This reminds me to live for today and savor ‘now’ before it’s too late.
I recently did the crazy San Francisco park and rec summer camp reg thing and only got 1 week (out of 10) of camp for my 10 year old. I cried. But the maybe I'm getting something better, which is more time with the family one last time before internships and jobs and I start grad school in the fall (at 50, what I am even doing??) This part of parenting isn't talked about much, the pain of letting go as they become adults. We'll never have the time the same again. I guess we'll have to see how I'm after 9 weeks of "camp mom" .
Adult kids still like family vacations if you go to fun places and take their friends/significant others along. Never fails: renting a house in Kauai guarantees a new type of family vacation!
I’ve never thought about our ‘routine’ stuff having a finite ending until my mom who is 75 years old said to me during her last visit few weeks ago that we would see each other about 50-55 times if she were to die when she’s 80. That’s when it hit me. If I think of our ‘routine’ stuff like a summer vacation in this term, we only have 5 of those left with my oldest (until she goes to college), which seems not enough and I’m not ready! This reminds me to live for today and savor ‘now’ before it’s too late.
I recently did the crazy San Francisco park and rec summer camp reg thing and only got 1 week (out of 10) of camp for my 10 year old. I cried. But the maybe I'm getting something better, which is more time with the family one last time before internships and jobs and I start grad school in the fall (at 50, what I am even doing??) This part of parenting isn't talked about much, the pain of letting go as they become adults. We'll never have the time the same again. I guess we'll have to see how I'm after 9 weeks of "camp mom" .
Adult kids still like family vacations if you go to fun places and take their friends/significant others along. Never fails: renting a house in Kauai guarantees a new type of family vacation!