My baby is a young woman, but that was just me yesterday!

I am bemoaning the passing of time. It's truly a blink of the eye and wa-la, you are done with diapers, night-feedings, potty-training, hauling half the house with you everywhere you go, fighting the child to get them hooked in the carseat, answering a million why questions, shopping for school supplies, fighting them to take a bath, then fighting them to shorten the shower, listening to them cry about their hair, or their clothes, or their friends, on and on and on..........or so you think it will go. Then you turn around and the child has transformed into a young adult. In fact, isn't that you staring back at you? I can't be old enough to have a daughter this age, I'm still this age, aren't I? One week, that's all we have left til she is gone off to start her next chapter. That of college student, independence, new experiences, new friends and less of us. I pray we have grounded her enough to enjoy the wings we give freely in order to fly back to us and to her God. I want to bless her and encourage her and pray the best for her, while fighting back the tears and desire to lock her in my arms of protection! I'm so very proud of you darling........