I have been seeing hundreds of Facebook and Sybermoms posts about everybody's 8th-graders graduating and getting ready for high school. I am sincerely happy for all of them, especially my CC2 friends' kids (all of us who had babies in 1998 and have been posting/meeting up ever since) but it really hit me today, for some reason. How has so much time gone by? I wish Hannah were still here and getting all excited about starting this new phase. It blows my mind that all those babies/toddlers she came into the world with are becoming young women and men; there have been bar- and bat-mitzvahs, half of them are on Facebook, there are boyfriends and girlfriends in the picture; they are looking like teenagers/young adults instead of little kids. I hate that Hannah got left behind. She will always be 5 years old, but I wish I could see what she would be like now.
I am enjoying the other transitions and milestones, like Max finishing preschool and officially taking us out of that stage, and Emily about to turn 10 (she talks about starting her "double-digit life") and becoming more tween- and pre-teen-ish, but I wish we didn't have to miss out on Hannah's life.
2016 is going to be so hard, when all her former classmates/friends/peers graduate from high school.
