This can't be happening....but it is.

Elder Son becomes a teenager today. 

Go ahead and cry with me....I hate crying alone.

Seriously?  How in the world could this be possible? I mean in order for me to have a child old enough to be a teenager, a real full fledged teenager, that would mean that I would have to be old.  Real old. 

I thought I was still just in my mid-late twenties?  And if so, there's no way I could have a teenager unless I had given birth to him in like 3rd grade or something.  And I remember 3rd grade....Mrs. Handley's class, fourth door down the hall on the left, learning my times tables and beginning handwriting.....however, I do not remember having a baby. 

So will someone please tell me how I have a teenager?

More importantly, tell me how this.....

became this.....

in the blink of an eye. 

Elder Son, you are wonderful, gifted, tenderhearted, a leader, a helper, lovable, huggable, smart as a whip, giving, and oh. so. cool. these days.  Thanks for letting me be your mom. Even if having a teenager makes me old.  I love you.