Well the wheel of life turns so quickly and often as the days and months fly past we dont even notice until we see our children walk past one day and think "who is that person and when did they get so grown up?"
And so I found myself celebrating my baby girl's 18th birthday this weekend.
When the bloody hell did that happen?
She is the last little princess I have and she is planning to leave the nest next year to head to University in the big city leaving the colonial backwater of Newcastle far behind.
I fear that she is unprepared for the harshness of city life and I do not want to think about it right now.
The festivities of the coming of age were a quiet affair as she prefers to save her pennies for her end of school year "schoolies" yet another rite of passage that frightens the bejezzels out of me.
Where is that little girl whose every centimeter of skin would be kissed on a daily basis when she was only a wee bub!
She is now all grown up and there is nothing I can do about it.
We seem to have them for such a short time that letting go is a fearful thing. We can only hope that we have equipped them with enough knowledge and sense that they make the transition with as little trauma as possible on both sides.....
ReplyDeleteLord Robert Lawrence.