Josh and Becca Thrap and Family

I feel like I’ve been run over by a freight train!
A train full of hormones, and no, not my own, I’m not pregnant or menopausal (just yet). I’ve been struck by the “Puberty Train” and it is steaming full speed ahead and I am left a pile of weepy wreckage!!! I know that I’ve been overdramatizing that Jacob is TEN ever since the month before his ninth birthday! But…now he really is almost TEN and he’s REALLY not a baby anymore. It has gone so fast. He was so tiny and cute and life-altering, and now all of a sudden he’s using deoderant, asking for facial cleansers (to get rid of his ZIT and prevent more!) and growing even more hair! I know its ridiculous, but just typing that last sentence got me all misty-eyed. I miss my little Squdge. WOW, here come the waterworks! And most of you probably know, I do NOT cry. But my eyes are leaking like the baby that he’ll never be again. I know there are all kinds of positive things about his growing up, I’m just not focusing on those right now. Thankfully, he still seems to want to be with me, so I may have a few more years before he rebels. And honestly, I am hoping that he will be enough of a Mommy’s boy not to do that. Not so much that it’s obnoxious to others, just enough that he stays out of most trouble and keeps me included. No, in that arena I am preparing myself much more for Elise who also seems to be growing up awfully fast and following several of the same patterns that I lived in my youth. I know I’m in for it with the girls!