Fast Forwarding Onto the Highway of Life

Uh-oh.

Looks who's now behind the wheel!

That's right.  It's the BenJerMan.  The little boy who made the Eye of the Tiger videos, who wanted to see Dumbo every single day with his MeeMaw, who needed to hold our hand to cross the street, who played goalie by sitting down in front of the goal and playing the dirt, who was knee high to my knee high, who spent almost a week at a Savannah neonatal care unit when he was born, who played with super-hero figures and had the villain warn the good guys "I am going to refeet you!", who could recite the words to the Dora the Explorer cartoons, who did his first high school play when he was just in third grade, that 'little' boy is now behind the wheel of a car.

It doesn't seem possible.  But there it is.

Yes, it's just a learner's permit.  Yes, he'll need to go through driver's training and he;ll need to turn sixteen. But it's enough of a step.  It's past where Alison and I want it to be.

But ready or not,  it's happening.

Benjamin tooled around the Board of Education parking lot.  He did not crash into anything.  He made turns.  He even parked the car.  All while his mother sat next to him, holding her breath most of the time.  I stood on the side trying to take videos, and getting out of the way when I saw him moving too close to me.

Time hurtles us down the highway of life, and there is little we can do about it.  Except wave at the new drivers that are joining us.

But if you do see Benjamin on the highway, don't wave to him too big.  We don't want to distract him.  Let's let him concentrate.

Oy.  I can't believe this is happening already.