I can't believe I'm crying...
By patgalca
@patgalca (18369)
Orangeville, Ontario
March 19, 2007 8:10pm CST
I have been trying to schedule ahead for some things so that I know what I am doing. On Saturday June 2nd my daughter is receiving the Rite of Confirmation into the church. This is her last sacrament.
On June 26th she will be graduating from grade 8. I emailed my family members to tell them about both events to see if they could attend one or both. I started crying while typing. I cried earlier today when I called the school to find out the details. My little girls is graduating from grade school. I can't believe it. I thought sending her off to kindergarten was hard, man! Nine years later....
At her school, on the last day, all the students line the halls of the school and clap the graduates out of the school. I so want to be there for that. I know I'll have to bring plenty of hankies for that.
Okay, I'm bawling again. Better move on and read some other discussions.
How do you mothers handle those proud moments?
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@Patswords (189)
• United States
20 Mar 07
Sounds like you are handling it like most loving mothers would.
It's hard to watch our children grow up knowing that with each year that passes it brings them closer to the day they leave home.
They are our gifts to love and nuture for such a short time before we have to let them try their wings.
@BarBaraPrz (47346)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
20 Mar 07
Umm... as a point of order, this will not be her last sacrament. There are seven, remember? Matrimony is a sacrament. And then there is the Sacrament of the Sick (no longer just for the dying). Ordination is the other one, but we'll leave that for another discussion.
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@patgalca (18369)
• Orangeville, Ontario
20 Mar 07
There are no guarantees that she will ever marry. I knew about the other sacraments but they are voluntary. I don't think it is a sacrament for the sick. It is the annointing of the sick. I'm not sure that is a sacrament. I have my catechism here. I'll have to look it up.
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@frogboots (93)
• United States
20 Mar 07
Handle it? I think you are handling it just fine. If you enrolled her in to eighth grade again then you are not handling it very well.
I cry thinking about my daughter (who is two) doing the things that you are going through right now.
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@patgalca (18369)
• Orangeville, Ontario
20 Mar 07
When my daughter was your age I certainly never thought that far ahead, that she would graduate grade school, and then high school. I just hoped she wouldn't turn out to be a delinquent child. Of course that could still happen but so far it's looking good.
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