I have totally lost it emotionally

[siren_of_psych]

I grabbed Tristan's backpack and pulled out the end-of-week newsletter that stated it is the last such letter of the school year. I realized my first-born has already completed an entire year of school. Never again will he be a kindergartner.

A flower opens. A leaf turns and falls. A wave finds its way to the shore, and our children, without their even knowing, find themselves one step closer to their shores, as frightening and lonely a thought as that is for me.