{ Pulling at my heartstrings..... }

I often sit and wonder just where time has gone?



How could it be possible that just yesterday I was holding this beautiful little tiny baby girl in my arms and today I'm faced with a stunning young lady?

She's pulling at my heartstrings, she's making me smile, she's making me grit my teeth in frustration, she's making me smile with her quirkiness and awesome sense of humor and then she's making me shed tears with her independent streak and her need to separate from under my wings.

Time has flown, literally whizzed past us, leaving us stumbling and dizzy with memories of when she was just a baby, taking her first steps, uttering her first words.

We're looking at her today and overwhelmed with feelings of pride and of joy and deep down, sadness because we know she's getting older, she's becoming a teenager and she's spreading her wings and before we know it, she will be out of the house, living her own life.

I'm dealing with it better than my husband is. He is struggling, he is holding on to every little glimpse of the baby girl he adores.

I can see it in his eyes when he looks at her, I can hear it in his voice when he says he loves her, I can see it in the way he hugs her and tells her she will always be his little Jasmine.

Time doesn't stand still!

It does not stop for you.....

It does not allow you to freeze it and enjoy those moments with your children.....

It just does what it's going to do, it flies as fast as it can and leaves you breathless.....

I just pray that the Lord gives us both the strength and the wisdom to be there for her through every single day of her life, no matter what may come her way.

Be still my heart, I've fallen in love all over again!