Flashback...

Friday was Thomas's final ballroom performance of his high school career. The tradition is to spotlight each senior by having them stand in the middle of the stage with an escort of their choosing while they tell the audience about the soon-to-be-graduate. Seniors choose their escorts and I think most choose their Mom or Dad, but some choose a small child or a grandparent or a girlfriend or boyfriend...anyway, Thomas asked me to do it. And I forgot. Until they asked all the escorts to go backstage...HOLY HECK I'VE GOT TO GO ON STAGE! That was my thought...good thing I was still dressed for work, but it was a Friday so I was wearing jeans...Oh well...it wasn't too terrible....So we did it and I survived, although at one point I realized I was making a weird face on stage...so had to quickly adjust.

Thomas has improved his dancing skills a bazillion since he started dancing last year so it was really fun to watch him shake his booty on stage!

So by now you're probably wondering why I titled this post "Flashback"....Yeah, I'm getting to it, I promise.

When the show was done I gave my sweaty boy a hug and some money to go to the after party at Perkins, told him to buy his sister something to eat too, and he said "bye Mom, I'll see ya later"....And that was my flashback...to his first day of preschool. On that first day of preschool I was totally prepared to stay with my firstborn until he was ready to let go of his Mama and lo and behold, he was ready the minute he walked through the door, "Bye Mom, I'll see ya later". I cried that day and teared up when he said it again on Friday night.