So far all of my
favorite seasons in a child’s life are those moments leading up to a big
transition. Like the moment before boys hit puberty: all sweetness and
innocence, they don’t think it at all weird to play with action figures….until
the monster hits.
Elijah is in one of
those twilight moments. Next week he starts school and I will need to hand him
over to his peers. He will have to be independent. I will not be there to open
his goldfish bag or to guy him when he’s sad.
In this season of life
his mama is his hero. He picks me to be the coolest character, no matter how
hard his dad works to convince him that he is Optimus Prime. He just wants to
hang out with me and sit as close as possible and offers spontaneous tokens of
affection: “YOU are my sweetness!”
I don’t want to let
him go. What will happen to our “invisible umbilical”?
* * *
My everything just walked out the door. With a
sweet kiss and a casual “bye Mama,” he is off to school…off to childhood, off
to independence from me, as it should be, I suppose.
2 comments:
So touching, gave me tears to my eyes because I have 2 sons as well.
Cherish these moments as they pass too fast. The 'invisible umbicial cord' never really leaves, it just stretches further and further as our children age and grow.
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