Ever think you know but you do not?

I was raised on an island. I never knew how amazing of an experience being raised on an island was until I lived on the mainland. This summer, I felt the pull to take my kids home to my childhood. I showed them my elementary school, my high school, the gas station where I stopped as a teen to grab breakfast daily, my favorite beach, my memories of childhood. The memories came flooding back, almost like a rush or high. I shared my past with my kids.

As we walked into a cute boutique in a small upcountry town, these stunning flowers with fourteen inch stem where in a vase. I am very knowledgeable about flowers as I was raised near a flower farm, my father owned a nursery, and worked for a flower department. I know flowers. But this flower stumped me. When the gal in the store said, ‘It’s a water lily’. I was shocked. I had always assumed a water lily had a short stem to match the leaves that float on the surface with the flower. I was wrong.

Isn’t is funny when you think you know something only to realize that you do not? That is what this senior year of high school also feels like. I thought I would know what this should feel like, but I have been wrong. Not only are the girls uncertain, I too feel uncertainty. Is this what ever senior mom feels like?