Remember the moment

Last day of school, early release craziness everywhere you look. Isaac does not disappoint. As we are ready to walk back home he screams "I forgot my water bottle!!!!" We high tail it back across campus to his classroom to grab something I that I am going to pitch in the garbage when we get home because the thing is beat to hell.

Once in the room, in a silent moment, I watch him stop & absorb everything around him & what it has become. All that is left is blank desks, boxes, bags of trash & empty walls. It is very clear that the teachers are ready for summer as much as the kids are. I know I would be.

He looked at me said "this has been a great room."

I stop & think to myself without tearing up...are you sure you are only 6.

We leave.

Walking back across campus we see a HUGE mass of students, older students, 8th grade students. Huddled together in the 95 degree heat like penguins trying to survive the winter.

"Arms all in" a taller boy yells. Like an episode of Saved by the Bell the arms go in & a huge roar of "8th graders" rings out across campus.

I could not help but smile & be moved by what I had just witnessed. This was at least 30 plus students, most of them with tears in their eyes. Every size, color, make & model you could put into the mix. All friends who just wanted to cherish that time & live in that moment that would carry them to the next phase of their sweet young lives.

Ahhh to be young again & live so freely with such raw emotion. Adults forget that or it gets beat out of us.

Today reminded me to remember that feeling. Embrace moments & see how great they can truly be.