Jeka is graduating TONIGHT with her Masters in marriage and family counseling. My baby sister is a counselor!? What? I am so insanely proud of her. She is engaged to an awesome man who adores her and her fabulous family (especially her nieces and nephew!) She is an adult, like officially. I am so excited for her as she embarks on the beginning of her career and (soon-to-be) marriage.
This amazing uncle, my little brother Matt, just left last week for law school way back in Oklahoma. We are already missing him like crazy, but we are so excited for this new chapter in his life as well. We have gotten so close over the past year that it was extremely hard to say, "Goodbye."
I think these two youngsters and the major life transitions they are facing are much of the reason for my recent emotional swings. Our family is so connected at the heart that whenever one of us is experiencing something big, we all are. I am so happy for them with all of the big changes coming up, but I also selfishly want them to be little again. I want to babysit them and snuggle with them and tickle them and change their diapers. Not the adults they have become (that would be bizarre), but the babies I remember caring for and adoring with all that was in me. I am so thankful for their growing friendship and the fact that even though 12 years separate us, we can now walk side by side and share one another's lives on an equal playing field. Who'd have ever guessed we'd be so close?
