I did it! I wrote my last paper for the week! I think I might actually be on vacation.
Okay, that's sorta a joke, it's a holiday week, and moms rarely get a vacation during a holiday week.
As I took my daily walk though, I got to thinking about the other day of celebration that happens during Thanksgiving week every year, our son's birthday.
This year is a milestone birthday for him, he's officially hitting the arbitrary number that society has decided marks adulthood. I find it all a bit amusing, as both of my kids were treated as and acted like adults far before they hit 18, but still, it's a pretty big deal.
Then again, it's also made me more than a touch pensive. I've always been a person who is feeling all the things internally while also warring with said feelings with my logic-wired cortex. It makes for a great overall state of health😉 Anyway, my youngest child hitting adulthood is sorta blowing my mind.
I mean, I am not really that old, especially considering I now have two grown kids. And since I am navigating my junior-ish year of college this year, I feel all sorts of outside the norm of things.
But one thing I don't feel weird about is my boy heading out in to the world to do his thing. One of the highest honors to me as a parent is to watch my competent, independent offspring go seize who they are. I'm doing that bit myself a touch later than most, and that's okay, but my kids, well, they are hitting embracing the self and who they are to be in the world right out the gate.
It makes me beam with all sorts of accomplishment joy. All the work and sacrifice and going without so they could thrive doesn't seem like any sort of sacrifice at all.
It seems like a privilege and honor. Because it is.
People have said it a lot, there's nothing more amazing than having and raising children. You'll always be face to face with how you've failed, where you are lacking, and how horrid you can be at times.
But you also get to embrace the fullness of serving a human, one that you've gestated and nurtured, which is an act of the most self-sacrificing and incredible types of love.
It's also something that you don't fully understand until you do it. Which also makes me wonder about all of the other self-evolving acts that make up this reality. Life is really rather wondrous!
So, as I go about this week of gratitude and the celebration of that which has been given, I will also be pondering and quietly celebrating the end of an age and the beginning of another. Life is a state of change, with some states taking longer to elapse than others, and this parenting stage, it's been a trip. A most glorious journey.
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Haha, I'm nowhere close to understanding how you feel right now. I'll probably not understand anytime soon too, but this was a nice read. I've heard parents say it's hard to let their kids grow and go, yet, here you are, joyful to let them go. At the expense of sounding like the Gen Zs, it's giving good vibes and great parenting, and my-child-is-not-my-property. :)
You deserve some accolades! 💐
!BBH