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  2. Dude: Tell me about it. Last year at this time, I taught my 4-year-old daughter how to ride a two-wheeler on the dead-end of the block where we live. This past Tuesday, she turned TWENTY. And we just signed the contract to sell our house and move out of state.
    Note to new(-ish) parents: Take LOTS of pictures. It goes by faster than you can possibly imagine.

    –A Guy Who [Hearts] Bossy (in a platonic way….)

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  4. Wait one minute, Missy. JK is confused. We already had the party before he graduated??? What about the beautiful photo of Bossy and Bossy’s husband being “owners of a high school grad?” Am I in a time warp…or just warped and timely. (Please answer, but be kind.)

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  6. I am weeping because I so remember that day.
    “Such a manly man”…that’s what one of his little girl classmates said…
    And what a choice prediction.

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  8. I just shed a little tear in sympathy.

    The boy and I are in current negotiations to bypass becoming 7 years old and staying 6 forever. He’s not buying it. Even though he’s usually so compliant!

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  9. I’m feeling a little teary eyed! Congratulations to your son and to you! When I graduated, I felt like it was my achievement but now looking back I think my parents should have received an award to for all their help and support. Then again, I just helped my 4 year old (yes, I know he’s little) write down his favorite memory for the preschool scrapbook that’s being put together for his teacher.

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  14. Oh, look at that little face. Congrats to him on making it through (with flying colors no less), and congrats to you and the Mr. on raising such a fine upstanding (and handsome!) young man.

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  15. Aww, liddle guy. Mine little fella is only 8 months old and, what with the fussy and the diapers and the disrupted sleep…zzzz…um, what? Oh, really I cannot fathom that whole thing 17 years from now. Altho, they do tell me that it goes fast. I guess you’d agree…Congratulations!

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  20. I always knew the blinking was too blame.

    My niece just graduated from kindergarten. I need to figure out how to stop blinking, before she gets any older.

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  24. So bittersweet and so true…that blinking thing. Just wait till next month when he gets his degree from Columbia and you have to pack up everything he ever owned and transport it a thousand miles from home so he can begin his big, high paying job. Leaving him there all alone will bring on more than the ugly cry.
    Congrats to you, Mr Bossy, your brilliant son and his very talented sister. Savor these moments!

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  26. I never believed people when they said “it goes fast” until It. Went. Fast. Since my nest emptied out (last year), I dream of babies, of little kids…

    On the up side, I had a beer and a nosh with my two sons (now ages 22 and 24) earlier this week, and they didn’t start wrestling until we were headed back to car. Beats the hell out of a food fight in the restaurant.

    Congrats to both of you!

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  27. Do I ever know that feeling. I’m still weeping over my baby turning 21 in April. And the “teak lots of photos” advice is so true. In twenty years you too can embarrass your child with a blog post featuring a compilation of his life in photos.

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  29. Damn it, Jim.

    The only part of childhood I’d really like to simply blink and make disappear is the whole potty training thing. Other than that, totally grateful for every moment. Usually.

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  31. Just when I’d managed to rein in my own weepy messy self. Thanks a million. I am now dripping salty tears and snot on the keyboard that your tax dollars (and mine) paid for.

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  32. Yep. I just wrote a post about my son *dating* someone for the first time. (he’s 15) ~sigh~

    I am SO grateful I’ve been able to really BE with my kids, and treasure every moment – mostly. It does fly by so quickly.

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  40. would it be weird if i went and grabbed my kindergartener out of his classroom RIGHT NOW and spent the whole day smelling his head?

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  41. And the seasons they go round and round,
    And the painted ponies go up and down.
    Were captive on the carousel of time.
    We can’t return we can only look
    Behind from where we came,
    And go round and round and round
    In the circle game.

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  43. This is completely why I homeschool. It’s called Denial. Without that bus, without that cap and gown you can just pretty much DENY that your child is growing up, see? At least until they talk/walk/first haircut/teeth/ride a bike/have over nights/roll their eyes at you/drive a car/first apartment….etc….but at LEAST we here at eclectically yours don’t have The Yellow Bus of Fleeting Youth and the Cap and Gown of Independence. No sirree…..meanwhile, congrats. Enjoy. Hug that little boy.

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  45. That’s it. I’m getting toothpicks to prop my eyes open so I never blink.

    In spite of the fact that you did blink and this happened, you created an incredible son who will be very successful and happy in life. Some people blink and don’t have that to show for it.

    Go ahead and have some wine. I know I’m ready to. Right after I kiss my babies.

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  51. so sweet! i know it goes fast. hard to believe for sure. i look at pics of my kids when we first moved overseas and they were so little! where did all the time go?

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  52. awwwwwwwwwww!

    congratulations to bossy’s son (and his parents and sister)! job well done!

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  56. This morning, I made it all the way through my son’s preschool graduation, the end of year video, the praises form his teacher about how far he has come this year…I was close, but I did. not. cry.

    Then I get home and see this. Now I’m blubbering.

    Thanks a lot, Bossy.

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  59. For some strange reason this post made me think of this song:
    (Joe South)
    Oh, the whippoorwill roosts on the telephone pole
    And the Georgia sun goes down
    Well, it’s been a long, long time but I’m glad that I’m
    Goin’ back to my home town

    Goin’ down to the Greyhound station
    Gonna buy me a one-way fare
    And if the good Lord’s willin’ and the creeks don’t rise
    By tomorrow, ah, I’m gonna be there

    Don’t it make you want to go home?
    Don’t it make you want to go home?
    All God’s children get weary when they roam
    Don’t it make you want to go home?

    There’s a six-lane highway down by the creek
    Where I went skinny-dippin’ as a child
    And a drive-in show where the meadows used to grow
    And the strawberries used to grow wild

    There’s a drag strip down by the riverside
    Where my grandma’s cow used to graze
    Now the grass don’t grow and the river don’t flow
    Like it did in my childhood days

    (Don’t it make you wanna go home?)
    (Don’t it make you wanna go home?)
    All God’s children get weary when they roam
    (Don’t it make you) wanna, wanna go home?

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  60. I think it’s doubly unfair because BLINK I’m aging that fast too, right along with the kids!!! How come it took FOREVER to get from thirteen to twenty?? and now its two weeks to get from thirty to forty!!

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  61. I am three-quarters of the way through my blink and I just want to stay here … except the 3/4-blink makes me look funny in photos. And by funny, I mean retarded.

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  62. It does go by in a blink, doesn’t it?

    I have a 22 year old, and I have a three year old. It seems like yesterday that my oldest was my youngest’s age. The oldest just moved back in with us while he finishes college, and it’s pretty funny to check him when he complains that his little brother is kind of bratty. Cause he’s got nothing on the oldest at that age!

    Congratulations, Bossy’s son! And try not to cry too much, mama.

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  64. You think you did the ugly cry now? Just wait, Ms. Bossy. Just wait. The wedding is the worst one.

    For weeks, all I could hear in my head was “Sunrise…. Sunset…”

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  65. You are so right. The first year was very slow, but the last 5 1/2 have flown by. When he sleeps he still looks like the baby he was, but sometimes, in the right light, I can see flashes of the young man he’ll be.

    I imagine that when you look at your son, you can still see all the ages that he was, even if he doesn’t want to be reminded of it just now.

    Have a great summer with your wonderful grown-up son!

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  66. Love the photograph! Reminds me of those cute motivational posters from the ’80s — like with a kitten in a tree that read “I Would if I Could, But I Can’t, So I Won’t.” Um, maybe they weren’t that motivational.

    Anyways : CONGRATS – to both of you for getting through it! 😉

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  67. I really didn’t need this today – I was already in tears. I’m desperately searching the internets for some anti-growth serum.

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  68. Awwww. Mine just finished 1st yesterday, and I can’t imagine what it will be like 11 years from now. Congrats on this milestone for both of you!

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  69. If they would only listen to us when we tell them to slow down! Where did these long legs come from? Who told you that you were big enough to read? No you may not swim across the pool you are too tiny for that. Get back here you tall gawky thirteen year old and be my little snuggle bug again! Oh! my boys are growing up way too fast too.

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  73. you know when you read or see something that strikes you and you are sad for a split second and yr chest puffs the air out for a split second and yr eyes get hot? I was just there. xo congrats to his new chapter and yahoo for you and yr husband too

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  74. I don’t even (really) know you and this post got me all misty! I don’t even have kids yet!

    Congratulations Bossy’s Son! And Congrats to Bossy and Bossy’s Husband on a kid well raised (or something like that)!

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  79. Sigh, just last week Little Miss Farty was shouting “Mush!” to make me push her stroller faster (I was already running flat out). Next week she moves into her very.own.apartment, with hot and cold running fiancé.
    Wha’ happen?

    Oh, congrats to BOSSY’s son!

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  81. What is so wonderful is that he is still so sweet and still your baby boy!But now he can drum and cook and get into COLUMBIA! Be proud! Peace

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  85. I wonder if Botox would help with the blinking thing. Because I would even consider Botox for blinking.

    How do you convey SO much with SO few words? I can’t even write a COMMENT that small.

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  86. CONGRATS Bossy’s son on your graduation!

    Cheers to the good times to come for you all!

    I blinked several times and my grandson graduated from 6th grade this year. OMG!

    Hold me!?!?!

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  87. Bossy you are going to make my mommy-clock start to ache again. I can’t do that again! I already mooned over the mommy-clock last weeeeek! I did show you that right? Been a hell of a week… way to go to the whole Bossy family and all their Bossy peeps! Cheers!

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  88. ahhhh – I so know what your are going through. Number 2 will be done school in three weeks and off to university in September. Our nest will be empty.

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  91. my oldest is 6 and he is graduating from kindergarten in a couple weeks… I’m not ready for that never mind highschool grad!

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  93. Yep! I just got done sitting down with my 20 year old and helping him with his resume.

    When my son was in kindergarten, he rode the bus after school to his after-school care, which was the pre-school he went to since he was 3.

    I remember first I rode the bus with him and walked him the 1/2 block to the school.

    Then I put him on the bus, followed the bus in my car, and walked him to school.

    Then I met him at the bus-stop at the day-car, walked him to school.

    Then I parked at the bus-stop and waved at him as he walked to school.

    Then I parked across the street and down the block and watched him get off the bus and walked to school without him knowing I was there.

    it was so sweet to see him run so confidently down the sidewalk to the preschool and buzz the gate. I did this maybe 3 times, and then I felt comfortable with the arrangement.

    Because we were on a city bus line, sometimes I took the bus to work and when I picked him up at the end of the day, we’d walk from the pre-school to the city bus stop, and ride it home together. I think things like this made him a very confident, self-reliant person.

    As a junior high student in LA, he learned how to travel by bus in Santa Monica and the westside – and probably further into downtown and East LA than I really want to know.

    Today he lives in Brooklyn and takes the subway to his college classes in Manhattan. He’s back in LA for the summer.

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  95. I blinked twice, and now my daughter is 27. If I blink again I’ll probably be a great-grandfather.

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  97. {sigh}
    Can Meg call Bossy to commiserate when she blinks and in 6 short years her 12 year old is graduating from high school?

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  98. I cried the ugly cry when I dropped off my eldest daughter at her first day of kindergarten. Cried like a big ol baby. I can only imagine the tears in 12 years. Congrat’s to the whole Bossy clan. Enjoy the summer. And, just think of those glorious visits to NYC-Columbia in the fall.

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  99. It may be the PMS talking, but I just had to fight back the tears from reading this post. My last boy goes to kindy in the fall.

    I swear, after age 22 life was a blur in my peripheral vision. Cliche’ be damned…it goes by way too fast.

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  101. There’s a great little short story you should read called “The Swing” by Mary Ladd Gavell in her collection of stories, “I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly.” It speaks to the mother looking back on her adult son as a 6 y.o. boy.

    It’s hard watching our kids grow up because we know they will never be as they were, and yet they have the potential to become something equally as awesome, and we hope that that will come to pass. We don’t experience this with any other loved ones–we don’t sit around and wonder what our friends or parents will be like in 10 years or yearn for them to stay just as they are in any given moment; we just let them evolve and our relationship grows around that.

    Congratulations, Bossy’s son, and congratulations Bossy and Bossy’s Husband for shepherding him thus far!

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  103. College goes by even faster. My oldest graduated last year and I swear I was at her high school graduation just a half hour ago.

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  111. Life never seems to give you a moment to hold it. I continue to ask myself where does it go, and why does every day seem to go by faster. It never gets easier, in fact, it gets harder to control the time. And dam if I’m not getting older and my kids smarter….

    My best,
    Dorothy from grammology
    remember to call gram
    http://www.grammology.com

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  112. You know, I have these snippets of flashbacks all of the time! I often say to myself that the days go by so slowly, but the years do fly by so quickly! I could just cry thinking about it! I still have a vision of my frightened first grader son holding his big sister’s (5th grade big sis) hand as they approached the school bus-he was terrified and she was so protective. I am sobbing now……….

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  113. My niece just graduated yesterday. I kept telling her not to take that brick off her head so she wouldn’t grow up, but she just wouldn’t listen. I can still remember how it felt to hold her the first time, when she was just a few hours old. I cried then too…

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  114. I’m going to need an unlimited supply of valium if it all goes by this quickly, and the day my little guy heads for college, well, just take me out to a bar and shoot me.

    Congratulations and I hope you look back on the blink with lots and lots of joy.

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  115. I have an almost 4 year old and a 8 month old (boys) and I have re-read this post 8 times in 2 days and cried every time. Ridiculous. ILY, Bossy.

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  116. Congratulations Bossy and family! I can’t imagine my own graduating from high school, but I know it will go by far too quickly.

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  118. This post makes me HORRIBLY EMOTIONAL!! I busted out crying when I saw Bossy’s sweet son walking from the bus! Why you ask? My own will start kindergarten in two months and I am not ready. I am an emotional mess and I haven’t even bought the first item on the school supply list. I want to freeze time so he stays my little man forever. *sniffle*

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  119. Well, crap! My two are going to be entering 2nd and 7th grade in the fall. They were born yesterday and the day before. What happened?

    (and yeah, I’m weepy)

    Seriously, congrats to you and your whole family (maybe even the village if that’s how many folks helped) for raising such terrific – and terrific-looking – kids!

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  120. Sniffles here, too. My oldest just finished first grade and I’m already not looking forward to doing the first bus post when she graduates. I know it’s going to go all too fast…it already is.

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  121. Thanks for making my mascara run. My firstborn is heading off to kindergarten this fall, and I am already hormonal and blubbering about it.

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  122. haven’t visited in a while. that picture of him getting off the bus and his graduation is a real eye opener bc they are both in color! so that means modern, that means yes – it did go by fast.
    you know what i mean. like if you had a BW picture of him and then color, then one can say, ok, there was a slow evolution there…
    just when i was enjoying not worrying about them growing up fast, this reminds me to start worrying…
    cut prom pictures. He is a handsome fella and if i remember rightly from that door picture, he’s awfully tall.
    he needs to be a writer for sure. he’s got the humor.

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  124. Uhhhh, I was just going to post about this today but I kept getting choked up. My baby just graduated from her first year of preschool. I didn’t even get slightly emotional on her first day but her last day? Tears! They showed a photo montage of her class and school and played an entirely gay Michael Buble song over it and I cried! And even worse, downloaded the song!! What will become of me when she graduates high school?

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  125. i have to say i had to revisit your site and i read this post again. and that picture just gets me. for one thing, when they get off that little yellow bus, you know they have no troubles, no worries, all they care about is candy and playtime and nothing beyond that.
    just really breaks my heart to see my son and daughter go from small to larger. time is flowing by fast.
    whatever happened to days of onesies and diapers and they were fascinated by a little round ball.
    how heartbreaking it is to see them grow up so fast. i can easily see that for every mom who has ever held a baby, these precious moments are priceless and can never be replaced and oh, how we wish we could have them back.
    of course there are lots of things to look forward to. but the end of days of innocence are so hard. I just had to get that out of my system, so thank you. I pray we see our children grow up strong and healthy. i read a blog of a woman who lost two of her young daughters in a car accident and so this precious time has to be really valued.
    why do they grow up so fast. who told them to? i can hardly believe my son went from handing me papers to read for him to reading our his own kindergarten handouts.
    could they not lay in my arms for a little while longer.
    a blink of an eye, gosh, i hope not. i think for most moms this is just a v. emotional thing. and frankly, i am so not looking forward to the ugly cry at weddings, for the record.
    sigh.

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  126. My five-year-old graduated from preschool last week and I cried. Now you’ve got me scared that I’ll have a nervous breakdown when she finished high school!

    Congrats on your son’s graduation!

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  127. wow. i know that 4 3/4 yrs has gone so fast. my son is going to graduate (lol) from pre-K next wednesday i can’t imagine high school graduation. wow. where does the time go??

    congratulations on your grad!! 😉

    xoxoxoxox’s

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