Four more years! (Until your high schooler moves out)
If I were sentenced to four years in prison, I think I could take it. Four years is really not that long, in the context of our lives. I've lived four decades now, after all.
So that's how I'm thinking about high school: "Only four years.'' Creed starts high school in August.
These are the years I've been anticipating for 14 years now, since he was born. I've re-lived the worst episodes of my own high school years, the clashes with my parents, the misdeeds they never found out about. I had great fun in high school, but those are troubled times for a kid, as well.
Only four more years. That's all we have left with Creed, before he goes off to college, if all goes as planned.
Four years to cook the meals he'll compare other people's cooking to for the rest of his life. Four years to repeat pithy bits of advice he might one day pass on to his child, or someone else's. Four years to stop doing things I don't want him remembering and telling everyone else about when he's an adult.
Four years. Not much time.
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