September 18

Isaac got out of the car and walked over to practice this afternoon as I looked on from the driver's seat.

He's been taller than me for several years now and he shaves on a regular basis, but it's still startling when I realize that he's not a little kid anymore; that my one-time little chunkster is very nearly a man.

I'm proud of who he is and who he's becoming; of how he's able to both have fun and be goofy and wrestle with complex thoughts and issues. And I'm grateful to be his mom every single day.