It is hard for me to believe – but my middle child got his drivers license yesterday. Where did the time go? Once upon a time he was this little boy (we always thought he was real little<\/i> because his older brother was real big<\/i>) with a smile that took up his whole face and while he still has a big smile – he’s not a little boy anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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8th grade graduation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n His getting a driver’s license has been a bit harder for me to be comfortable with than it was with his brother. Not because he can’t drive well, but I think it’s because I realize now how fast this next stage of his life (and mine) will go, having already gone through it with his brother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n A Driver at Last!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n He turned 16 last month, and now he’s a junior in high school taking AP classes and working on college prep. It’s a lot for this mom to absorb. I know what comes next.<\/p>\n So I shall remember his big toothy little kid grin, and embrace the fact that someone else can go to the store to get milk. I am going to set aside what I know is coming soon and try to live in and enjoy the moment.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Around 3 It is hard for me to believe – but my middle child got his drivers license yesterday. Where did the time go? Once upon a time he was this little boy (we always thought he was real little because his older brother was real big) with a smile that took up his whole face …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zbKo-KQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}