OMG! It’s just about official. I’ll get my toe tag any day! My oldest child – ripe old age of 14, went and applied for a job today. She has an interview on Tuesday at 4:00 pm. Check back that day to make sure they’re not about to prep the ground for daisies.
I had to call some pals who have been in my life since before her birth so that they too may feel the minutes of their lives creep up on them and turn a few hairs gray long with mine.
I’ll never know if I’ll ever be ready for her to leave this nest. I think I’m suffering from empty nesters syndrome already. Does it ever get easier? OMG!! That means my dad is old too!! no no no… I just refuse to believe that.
But I know that I am old. I know that I have to trust her to try and go for what she wants. Trust me, it’s not about the fact that I’ll be spending time taking her to and fro for this job if she gets it. I mean, really, I already do that when she wants to go do things after school or on the weekends anyway. This isn’t any different, except, that maybe, I can’t follow her around all day and make sure that she makes it through the day un-scathed.
Can I? Do you think they’ll let me? After all, it is at a family fun park. Maybe I could just sit on the bench near by as I turn her 12 year old sister loose to enjoy the park and use that one as my excuse for being there. OH GOOD GOD PEOPLE!!! SHE COULD ACTUALLY AFFORD TO PAY FOR HER FIRST CAR IN TWO YEARS!!!
