Excitement

One thing I love about this time of the year is everyone is getting excited for one reason or another. Kids are getting excited because summer is almost here. Parents are getting excited because they won’t have to help with anymore homework. Not to mention some parents get to have a little break from the kiddos while they go to camp or stay with grandparents.

For the first time EVER….Tre and I are one of those parents. Lyric will be spending 2 weeks away from home, as exciting as that may sound and should be I am already starting to get so sad. Lyric has never been away from home longer than a weekend. Last September Tre and I took a week vacation and we seriously went through withdrawals. Well I did, Tre was good until the last day and then he started to sing the I miss my Lil Man song I had been singing all week. Although we do have some fun things planned during the 2 weeks Lyric is going to be gone (John legend concert and a mommy day trip with Alectia), we also hope to get a lot accomplished. As much as I am looking forward to get some major things done off my to- do lists, I am seriously going to miss my little boy. Somewhere between him turning 3 and now he has already matured so much. Now don’t get me wrong he has his moments (don’t we all) but he is really turning into a little boy instead of my BIG baby.

So yesterday I went to pick up Lyric after work like I usually do, and was greeted by the Director of Lyric school telling me congratulations. I am assuming the look on my face probably clues her in I had no idea what she was talking about, because she went on to tell me how Lyric was telling all his classmates he was going to be “not only going to be a BIG brother but the bestest big brother ever”. She said she had not seen a little boy this excited about a new sibling in quite some time if ever. As we walked to the car I felt a small nudge and I immediately wondered why I had worried about Lyric adjusting at all. As much as I hate to still admit it I often pray about something and then continue to worry and stress like I can make it right. I have talks with Lyric quite often about asking for help but not letting Me- Maw, Daddy or I actually help. I can even say how many times I have asked Lyric why he asks for help if he doesn’t really want help and wants to keep trying to do it himself. And here I am doing the same thing. Like mother, like son.