School Mum

Tomorrow I will have two children in school.

As I expected, I am troubled.

Nervous even.

But it's a different feeling this time round.

I am not worried that she won't cope without me.

I am worried that she will.

I am worried that she will make friends and learn more and grow up and slip out of my grasp.

She is a free spirit kind of girl, and I think about how I will show her love as she needs me less? 

I suppose I will stumble and fail and try to listen to her heart and learn some things myself. 

Perhaps school is education for all of us.

(I remember the words I whispered to myself two years ago...)

Love is an evolving thing.

And so I smile at the future.