More than our birthdays or a big New Year's celebration, September was the milestone that showed our time with her was ticking away.
I remember when I was a little kid, I looked up at my mother's face, noticed tears welling up in her eyes, and asked,"Are you OK, Mom?" Her response:"Oh, I'm fine, honey. I just get a little melancholy this time of year."After that, every fall, when the air got crisp and the leaves began to yellow, I'd see that same subtle change in my mother's expression.
There were the changing leaves, she said, as well as the shortening days. But mostly, there was us. Her kids, always growing, inch by inch and day by day.But last year, when the calendar turned to September, that feeling of melancholia she'd long described washed over me. And this year, it came back like clockwork.
She was right. To me as well, there is no better indicator of the passage of time for a parent than the start of a new school year. There's no better reminder of the fact that our children are getting bigger than when they put on their backpacks and we notice it takes up a bit less real estate on their once-adorably-small frames.
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