My youngest, a high school senior, had his yearbook photo taken the other day.
This is the Big Picture, the one that required him to dress up in a nice (and clean) white shirt, tie, and suit jacket.
This Big Picture will go into his high school yearbook as a permanent marker of this stage of his life.
I could have described how handsome my big guy looked and how nicely he filled out that freshly-pressed suit, chosen and handled with care by you-know-who.
This is the photo that will merit a frame and sit on our mantle, the one we’ll look at for years and years and fawn over forever (because we’re sentimental). It’s the one we’ll show friends, long-distance relatives, and anyone else who will take a glimpse.
It’s the one that could very well make the social media rounds in advance of future job interviews. And be scanned by potential daughters-in-law on a dating site.
Given the massive weight of all of this, I would love to say I was there when the photo of my high school graduate was snapped by the professional photographer hired by the school months and months in advance for this momentous occasion.
I would love to have witnessed the photo session by the ace shutterbug with the discerning eye for which our family shelled out a slightly scary amount. Then I could have described how handsome my big guy looked and how nicely he filled out that freshly-pressed suit, chosen and handled with care and hung by the door the night before, by you-know-who.
That scene in the high school lobby with the flash going off, my son standing there with his handsome smile and his perfect haircut as other parents murmured, “So grown up! A senior already!” — I’d love to share that and describe it in detail.
Can’t!
I didn’t miss it because of work, or travel, or a personal commitment like yoga or anything like that.
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I was available. School’s just five minutes away. Practically had the car keys in my hand.
But then with one simple (and profound) line from my very grown up son, it was clear it wasn’t happening.
“I got this, Ma,” he said with those big eyes.
(You know how they look at you.)
Wow. That is a chapter right there. A book.
So I trust the photo session went well. I am sure it did. I really am. I know it did.
Meantime, I’ll keep checking the mail for those yearbook photo proofs.
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