Today was the first of what is doomed to be a year of lasts for me.
My twins are in grade 6 this year, which means this is their last year of primary school. It’s amazing how many things I will never experience again once this year ends.
Tonight the primary school hosted it annual twilight sports competition, and even though I will be honest and admit that I wasn’t really looking all that forward to going, I realise now that this was because I was dreading facing what would be the first of my long list of last experiences.
This is this last time I will watch my babies compete against their primary school friends. The last time I will sit on the oval with the other mums cheering our teams on.
Don’t get me wrong after 10 years at the primary school I am ready for the twins to go to high school, but I would not be true to myself if I did not admit that the idea that they are growing up so quickly is terrifying.
I feel like I’ve only just blinked and 12 years have raced by. How quickly times flies. Term one is almost over, before I know it the year will be gone, and I will have experienced the last year six musical, the last carols by candlelight, the last assembly, the last primary school year.
Tonight my twins were victorious. Their happy faces were beaming. They both raced their little hearts out and excelled in the wheelbarrow races winning 3 out of the 5 races. I could not be more proud.
5 minutes more please 
We are feeling this with ours too. It is good to watch them grow, but sad sometimes too. I can totally relate to this.
I know it is very sad isn’t it.
Time is so deceptive sometimes, just disappears. But lasts also mean new beginnings and new adventures!
Thank you. You are right ofcourse it’s better to focus on the positives than allow yourself to be swept up by the negatives.
I completely understand! Enjoy every minute xx so much has changed since Ben moved into year 7 and it’s wonderful to see but there is also that sense of loss x
Thank you dear friend, yes high school is not the same is it? But like many have said it is better to focus on all the experiences we have to look forward too then cry over the ones that have passed.
Absolutely 🙂 x
Don’t concentrate on the lasts – think of all the new firsts you will be experiencing.
Thank you Pamela, you are right, we have many many firsts ahead of us too.
With three grown children, I’ve muddled through many lasts, with tear-brimmed eyes. However, there are still so many firsts to look forward to. Glad your twins got to experience a last victory in primary school. They’ll soon be experiencing some wonderful first victories in their next school experience! 🙂
Thank you so much. Yes high school will be a new adventure that’s for sure.
I remember my son’s last events at the Primary level and sitting there thinking that the next time he was on the filed he’s be the one helping the younger kids!
Yes it was lovely to them motivating the younger ones some of which looked so tiny.
I hear you. I have a middle-schooler who just turned 13 in grade 7. (In America we don’t go from Primary straight to High School.) I also have a boy in grade 5, so he will be heading into his last year of primary this Fall, and a kindergartner (pre- grade 1.) I find I make ‘lists of lasts’ with each of my children as they appraoch a new milestone. The poor baby. She will have a sobbing mess of a mother by the time she gets to school!
Lol. Yes it was very sad when the twins finished kindergarten and went to primary school. The house was so quiet I went back to work so that I could cope with the emptiness.