Only two more remain

bts09It’s a meloncholy  truth of parenting: it goes on and on, but goes by too quickly . There will only be two more of these pictures ever taken; all my babies lined up on the first day of school. Next year, Kate will be a Freshman. In two years, John be a senior. The whistling sound of an emptying nest is whispering on the wind of coming days. These are the moments the empty chair seems more so.