From Popping Out To Moving Out

Suddenly I'm rudely evicted from Mommy's moist, dark, but totally protective care. Strangers with blue masks are oohing and aahing. Then they spank me! I can't talk, but I sure can see what's going on. Attacking a defenseless little creature. Wow! Then time goes on. I tell you about every bump in the pot-holed road of life as I grow up. Like how I feel when Mommy is having another baby. When bribed to use the potty. When schoolmates make fun of kids who look different. When my body starts to change. When one of my best friends gets cancer. When I learn to drive. Or, scariest of all, when high school days are over, and the time has come to leave the loving nest in which I had been shielded by my family since that first spank? Some milestones are light and cutesy; others really touching and emotional. But such is life......