This thing called life...

Life is funny... you know? As little children we're so concerned with growing up. When I grow up I want to be a policeman... a firefighter... an astronaut... a mommy... the list goes on and on. We're in such a hurry to be an adult and have jobs and families. No one thinks about the stress and the anxiety that comes with it. We're children for such a short time. Our childhood needs to be filled with evenings playing until the streetlights come on. Catching lightening bugs. Staying home from school when the snow comes. Fourth of July fireworks. Christmas morning's. Birthday parties. Sitting in daddy's lap. I didn't appreciate my growing up years. Do any of really? We turn around and we're all grown. Do you remember your first love? I was a Sophomore in HS and I was in love. I was a cheerleader and he was Captain of the Academic team. You thought I was going to say football team. Not me... no dumb jocks for me. (Instead I married a smart jock. ;)) Ever remember your first love lost? It was February 1992. I'll never forget it as long as I live. I never did find out what went wrong.

As parents we want our children to be little adults. We forget that they need this time as a child. They've got 60-80 years to behave like an adult. Let them be children. Billy Dean had a song called, "Let Them Be Little"... he writes, "Let them be little 'cause they're only that way for a while Give them hope, give them praise, give them love every day Let them cry, let them giggle, let them sleep in the middle Oh just let them be little."

I'm including a poem I wrote for my daughter.

Not Now

One day
I’ll be able to look back at these times and smile.

One day
she’ll be old enough for me to tell her everything.

One day
she’ll start school and I’ll have to take her to kindergarten.

One day
she’ll graduate from school then she’ll be off for college.

One day
we’ll give her away to a boy-a man-a husband.

One day
she’ll go through labor she’ll call us grandparents.

One day
will come soon enough so I’ll not push her to grow up.