She's the light of my life, and a fun kid to be with! She came this afternoon to spend the night with me, and it's been fun, as usual. We've played games and talked away the hours like two good friends, and tomorrow we're going on a picnic!
It seems that I learn something every time she comes. For instance, I learned today that the color purple is just not where it's at any more. Her new favorite color is pink! Sigh . . . who can keep up?!
Of course, at this point in my life, it's getting hard to believe that my daughter is a thirty-something, and my son will be celebrating his 28th birthday tomorrow. Where in the world have the years gone?!
At times, it seems like the experience of raising children lasts forever, but just turn around and those little feet that pitter pattered all through the house, are now filling adult shoes. The little hands that left fingerprints on our walls are holding their own children, or at least cleaning their own fingerprints now!
Yes, it seems once again that life is one transition after another. We spend their infancy wishing that our children could walk, so that they didn't have to be carried all the time. then they begin to run, and we are weary from chasing them everywhere. Soon those feet don't want to walk or run anymore. They'd much rather take the family car!
Don't forget to slow down and enjoy each transition of your child's life. It doesn't necessarily get better or worse as they grow and move into another transition and stage of life - each stage is just different, with it's own set of joys and challenges! They only go through each stage once, so enjoy it for all that it is for the first time around, because that's all there is!
As they say, life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it, so enjoy every moment, and every transition for all it's worth, and when you look back on the years of your children's growth, you'll be glad that you did!
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