Letting Go

Letting go and allowing your children to be apart from you can be a difficult task.  When my daughter was a little, energetic girl, I would welcome an offer of someone taking her for a few hours. Now that she is older, I am a bit more reluctant to have her go spend the day or night with a friend.

Why is that?

I guess I worry about her more.

When she was little, she would stay put in someone's home.  As a tween, she is off to the mall, games, and other activities where she is a passenger in someone else's vehicle.

I know it's a responsible adult driving and I know she is well supervised.  However, several years ago I was marked by the death of an 8 year old girl in our church.  My daughter was 3 at the time.  The little girl of the family was at a sleepover and the father was bringing her back home. It was a fluke accident.  The 8 year old girl and her friend were killed instantly.

I know I shouldn't worry.  Worrying does no good.  I need to trust that God is protecting her in all her activities.  I guess it's just hard to continue letting go as she gets older.

Sheesh...I can't even imagine what it will be like when she begins driving.  I better start praying now that I don't have a nervous breakdown in 4.5 years!

Why this blog?

Do you remember middle school? I do.  It was one of the first most difficult and emotional experiences of my life.  Changes in your body, changes in your friends, changes in your emotions... I'm not sure what boys go through, but for a girl it can be an emotionally turbulent period.

I survived...then...

However, now I am a mother of a Middle School girl and my husband thinks I may have to go on Xanax to survive!  The drama, the tears, the changes...I am reliving it again through my tween-age daughter. 

This blog is my experience of mothering through the emotion and guiding my young girl through the trials of middle school.  I'm sure there will be plenty of them.

I'm hoping that during this journey, I will find those that have gone down this road and help me along the way.  I also hope the moms that will soon follow will find some solutions as well.  Either way, mothering is a journey that is best done with friends.