Gulp Feeling Sad about DS leaving (in 2017!)

sadieshadow
Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:36:15 +0000

I am so happy (chemmchimney) you will make the long trek to see her if you can. I have some thoughts re the wistfulness re. time lost with our children. We might be imagining what it would have been to have this child (the one who we see growing up so well) home with us. And yet, it would not have been the same child! Having lived four very difficult (for her and and for us) years with my other child I personally don’t think I will romanticize what it might be like having a teenager go through high school living at home. The truth is, we always only know what we lived not what might have been.