Last night was middle school orientation for the girl child. It was...interesting. My memories of elementary school are...cloudy at best; over the last 6 years she and the boy child who is three years younger, have been going to elementary school i have not waxed about my school days as the frame of reference was not present. Sitting in the middle school gym last night on those..."order the hardest most uncomfortable" bleachers, watching the orchestra play, the chorus sing, the band perform it hit me that she...and by association, the boy child will....grow up.
It is not that I was in denial of this, far from it, i have had a balanced attitude towards the kids growing up since the day they were born, the balance consists on one hand simply reveling in the wonder of watching two little people become...who they will be, it is magic and something not to be missed. The other side of the balance is...the countdown to college when they go away and I and my wife get our lives back...hehe.
Being at the middle school (Which is so un-cool compared to Jr. High as it was when i went school) provided an interesting moment of symetry, where my daughter goes...i have been, the world different now but the path's...so very similar. It was comforting to find that she has reached this milestone, to know that I and my wife have gotten her through the first 12 years fairly unscathed, that she has...reached a bit of a peak, and now the climb changes, she moves from childhood into...that gray area of time where we become...us. I enjoyed this transition myself, it was easy for me, i hope to help make it the same....for her.
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