Seasons Come...Seasons Go...

This morning, it came to me...3 months. In 3 months Mattie is getting married! My baby is getting married! All those years ago I would dream about all my kids getting married and what my new daughters and son would be like. I would imagine the weddings and the joy of planning and enjoying the actual wedding. All the "to-do" & "ta-da" that goes along with it all. It was exciting as those years crept up. It was going to be a special time in their lives and in mine.

Well...here it is. 2005...Landon & Sarah, 2007...Kylah & Michael, and now 2008...Matthew & Mandy. It got here one by one so quickly and in just 3 short months it will be over. April 25th to be exact, all my children will be married off and another season of my life will be over and a new one beginning.

It's kinda bittersweet. It's hard to think that the excitement of it all will be done. It's hard to imagine my babies all grown up with lives of their own and families of their own. It's sweet to think we did it. We raised them and did good! They all picked well. It's sweet to have such wonderful additions to our family. Sarah, Michael, and Mandy are just what I would have picked for my children. They just fit with us.

And now babies are coming along. Ahhh. That part is really sweet. Ellie is growing and going and doing new things every day. She gives loves now, blows kisses, does all the motions to "pat-a-cake", is walking a little more everyday, and her personality is blossoming. She is becoming a big little girl so fast. You can see her trying to make words. She mimmicks everything you do. She'll be big before we know it and I guess that is good since she will get a new sibling in August! Yep! It was hard for me to imagine it at first. I just wanted to enjoy just ellie for a while longer and let her be the baby and center of attention. But I don't think that will really change. She will always be my first grandbaby and the light of my life, and with her charming little flirty self, she'll always be the center of attention. Now my light will just shine a little brighter with another to love on.

Wow, amazing how just a few short years, 3 in fact, can make such a difference in your life. Truly amazing. 3 seems to be the magic number right now. And I got 3 months to lose 30 pounds! okay, 20 would be nice. I gotta get on the ball.

Seems a season of my life is coming to an end.

But I think the best is yet to be!