natural progression of life

As I sat in my scrap room last night working on

Leah's wedding programs I thought about

how fast time has passed that I am making wedding

programs for this little girl that graced my home

while growing up.

Sometimes it is the growth of other people's children

that shock me more than my own.

I guess it is because I have been there every day to

watch my own grow while other people's children

has come in spurts.

So Leah is getting married.

I thought of the little girl who loved to hang out at

my house, not to play with baby girl but to

gain the attention of baby boy and any friend who may

be over that weekend.

It is a source of pleasure for my family as well as hers

to watch the video I made of the time she

sang to Celine Dion and pranced down the steps of my home

to the wondering eyes of Baby boy and Robert.

Thankfully, they didn't see what I saw,

a little girl with so much more maturity than those

boys had at the time.

She has always been the most loving child and even

now when I see her I am always reminded of the little girl

who I loved so much.

The natural progression of life:

Little children will grow up,

some will get married, some will travel the world

but they, with the grace of God,

will all grow up.