Today, my second boy–erm, young man–will be graduating from high school.

As a mother, I can’t help but wonder how we got from this:To this:From here:

To here:

As I mentioned this is my second boy to hit this milestone, and even though I have known it was coming and have done it once already, I still feel unprepared. Not only because it makes me feel like an old maid, but because my babies are not babies anymore. They’re growing up before my eyes. They’re going to college, far more self-aware and prepared to chase their dreams then i was at their age. For that I can only be grateful . But I still wish there was a way to turn back the clock, to walk through those moments again–to relive ones I cherished and the ones I was too busy to notice.