A June to remember

Kyle is the bass player in the back left


As Kyle's graduation gets closer, I am feeling more and more sentimental. I realize this will be a June with many lasts. Lasts that will, and have been making me feel very old, and sentimental. I realized this last evening when I arrived at his very last Orchestra concert. Kyle has been playing the string Bass since 3rd grade. He really never practiced and most often than not his bass would sit in his room collecting dust. But yet there were the concerts - twice a year- always long- always beautiful. I realized that even though Coleton is going to still be in school, and then eventually Paige, I will not be a high school mom for quite some time again. This was the last concert I would hear up here until Cole starts to play. Also, each year they would call out the seniors and they would play a group of songs that were special to them. They have a most talented orchestra teacher that is tireless, and writes a composition for them to play with their special music. Each year I would watch and listen to the seniors of that year, and it would feel so alien to me. Yet this year, while listening to my son and his peers playing together for the very last time on that stage, I found myself feeling 100 different emotions. Good bye high school concerts... at least for the next 7 years...........