Time passes by so fast while heart changing so slowly...
Senin kemarin, gue officially a Mom of 2 high schoolers and 1 middle schooler. It seems that it was just only yesterday I was carrying my pregnant tummy.
Kemarin sempat baca artikel yg di share Cindy Kristanto Rustandi that echoes her anxiety of being left by their children to college. And it means for me, the time will come too, pretty soon.
Meanwhile, I still have sometime to spend with them under my wings (okay, okay... I admit it was more gelambir lemak than wings).
But tonight Jo went to sleep at school for orientation. And Adel also stayed overnight being new student committee member. 2 kids gone. And the house feels so empty. No wonder they called it empty nest... with much emptyness...
And Greg too, although showing up to check on me every once in a while, the frequency has decreased much since he tried to behave like a big kid.
We are too absorbed and engrossed in taking care of our kids growing up, that we forgot what it was like not being a parents.
We often threw joke that we're too old for clubbing, midnight movieing, going to concert, while we just try to reason and makes excuses of our inability to leave the kids on their own. Or may be it's our need to get more sleep.
After we have kids (and the baby blues passed), we found that everything is better with the kids around. And realizing that one by one will fly away from us is a scary thought.
May be this is a good time to rethink and reshape what we are before we are parents, what we can do without the kids.
It's not to late, is it?
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