Independence

Big Deal.  Huge deal, actually. For anyone else, it would've just been a bike ride around the corner. But for Justin & Jasmine, it may as well have been a trip around the moon.  What it amounted to in reality was their first bike ride without a parent past the boundary of our driveway.  300 feet to the corner, left turn down the cul-de-sac, and back again.  One street to cross, one overlooked car (thank you, Jasmine, for saving your brother's life), about 5 roundtrips in total, and two kids that I'm finally starting to concede are growing up faster than lightning.