MOMENTS OF FOREVER For Elizabeth

MOMENTS OF FOREVER

August 20, 2016

Dear Elizabeth,

Your baby girl started kindergarten this past week.  My baby girl’s baby girl started kindergarten. How did time pass so fast?  When you and I entered the school building for ‘your’ first day of kindergarten, I experienced a ‘moment of forever’ - that moment when you know that ‘forever’ has changed.  This day is the real deal.

There will be other moments when forever changes. Somehow, though, this is a monumental ‘moment of forever’.  Realizing that you must give your child up to the less-than-perfect world that awaits them – well, it takes your breath time after time … after time. Every step along your parenting journey, many will offer advice; however, I have no advice. You, Elizabeth, are the smartest and most lovely being my world - a beautiful design. You and I have often spoken these words “...we could never have patterned Ella Kate and Graham better than God’s design.”  Your daddy and I feel the same way about you.

As you watch your children grow and learn the ways of the world, their joy is the magic of life. They, too, will begin their own 'forevers'  far too soon.  Cherish this time.  And know that in our imperfect world, with all my imperfect ways, I have been given you and your babies … the three most perfect gifts one could hope for.

Just thinking about how much I love you…Mom