I’ve been light on the blogging this week (mostly copying and pasting) because my eldest is graduating from high school this evening. We’re turning a corner as a family; the first one to leave the nest on her way to college, and the changes in both her life and the lives of those, well, left behind. <\/p>\n
It’s one of those events that is very happy and yet in a way sad. My mother-in-law said that she felt a sadness recently and didn’t know why. Today she realized it; she’s grieving. Our daughter is taking the first step to leaving our home, after having spent almost her whole life with us, and the absence will be definitely felt. Our in-laws live about 15 minutes away, and they see us quite regularly, once a week at church if not more often, so they’ll feel the same sense as well. <\/p>\n
Yes, it is sad, but the joy in this time will overshadow it. The pride in watching our daughter graduate with honors (something her old man could never<\/em> do) will push that aside. Having family and friends come together and celebrate this time will overcome any sorrow that the day brings.<\/p>\n I’ll miss my little girl as she hits the road and turns a corner to discover the next era of her life, in college. Yes, it is sad, but I’m excited for her. I remember this time in my own life, and it was thrilling. <\/p>\n Tonight, we all turn the corner, and we can’t wait to see what’s there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been light on the blogging this week (mostly copying and pasting) because my eldest is graduating from high school this evening. We’re turning a corner as a family; the first one to leave the nest on her way to college, and the changes in both her life and the lives of those, well, left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}