Summer is around the corner and the countless bluebonnets of 2016 are past their peak. Always a beautiful sight to see here is one more look before barbecues, beach parties and bug catching ( that is, lightning bugs) sets in.
See you next year Spring. Hello Summer!
Senioritis: that time of year when seniors in high school or college are so close to finishing but aren’t there quite yet. When time slows to a crawl, and it seems like graduation day will never arrive.
Eighth Gradeitis: Senioritis for 8th graders.
The next generation of 9th-12th graders are finishing their middle school years and are on the cusp of that great big new exciting world called high school.
My own 8th grader, Ben, said to me a couple of weeks ago, “I am soooo ready to be in high school.”
“I know you are – but you still have to get through these next few weeks of school.”
Saying that also prompted me to remind him to slow down and live in the moment. Don’t forget about today because you’re so focused on starting high school.
After all – as an 8th grader he is doing many things for the last time. Like the sports in which he participates. High school will be much more competitive, and chances are he won’t be able to play volleyball, basketball, soccer AND baseball.
Also, for now, he and his classmates are the BIG kids on campus. Next year….it’s back to the bottom of the heap.
I told him, “Be excited about your future but don’t live just for tomorrow. Enjoy today and relish all the things you have going on right now.”
Isn’t that a good lesson/reminder for all of us?
The 8th grade class of 2016 – blink and it will be 2020. Just like that they’ll be graduating high school.
Reminder to self – enjoy this remarkable young man now. The next four years will go by way faster than I think they will.
Joshua 29:11 For I know well the plans I have in mind for you, plans for your welfare and not for woe, so as to give you a future of hope.
My Crazy Graced Life 