to need a good slap

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Pfb baby boy technically left school today. Only has to return for exams. I don't think I've shed a tear about anything much in years, but I did today.
There was a Leavers' Assembly and he made a speech and I blubbed. How did this come around so quickly?
Please make me feel better.

My mom cried at my first day of school, my graduation, my wedding, and her first grandchild.

I think it's a pretty normal thing for mom's cry at milestones. :)

My DD came home blubbing as even the Head had signed her shirt she's my youngest so I don't have any technically 'at school' anymore. Only, y'know, eldest is doing A Levels and youngest starts in September!

Do you also have him suited and booted for the dreaded Prom in a few weeks? That's my next set of maternal sniffles lined up for me

Dilemma: re prom. Bought him a suit for the Y11 one, which he was then able to wear in the 6th form. It's a bit tatty now, but don't want to buy another one for the Y13 prom, when he's going to dress as a slob for the next few years at University.

I am not the sentimental type. But MY BABY IS LEAVING ME!!!!!!!!!!

Didn't get particularly emotional about my own DC's school milestones but my first GC is due in couple of months and I find myself welling up at the oddest things: picking up a comfort blanket toy in Mothercare the other day for example.

God knows how I'll cope when that GC goes off to university.

Aww sympathy OP.

The youngest of my older 3 DDs had her last normal day at school yesterday. Exams at random times after half term, then college in Sept.

I spotted her putting some of her uniform in a bin bag in her room this evening and was suddenly all over-come and had to walk away No more packed lunches, no more pick ups after school, no more parent's evenings, no more long tales of daft arguments with class mates. God knows why i think i'll miss these things!

Then i started thinking - It'll be apx 4 years until DD4 starts nursery ... and then it'll all start over again!

Sympathies OP I've got to go through it all next week with my youngest baby boy, I'm gonna be a wreck I remember his first day at school! he's hated every day of it bless him!

I'm the younger by several years of two and when I went to University my DM was a widow; later remarried.

She drove me there and I unloaded my bags and off she went - and as she told me years later, she got back to the empty nest and started a three-day crying jag.

That was followed by weeks of doing jigsaws. You might want to try that OP .

Seriously, sympathy to you, been there with my own DS and it's never going to be easy.