Teary-Eyed

I haven't had too many tear moments, although, my daughter tells me I am definitely going to cry when she isn't here. I keep saying, "Nah..." However, we are approaching crunch time now and it is busy! This week, we have to confirm flowers, pick up her dress, finish up on fans, bubbles, and some miscellaneous kind of stuff. One of the things we are working on is the video.

Somehow that is the thing that chokes me up....we sat here the other night browsing through song after song after song. What song to choose? Hmmm...so we ended up listening to a zillion, all, sappy love songs, some parent child, dad daughter, some mushy love stuff, but all VERY EMOTIONAL!

We downloaded a bunch so that the next day I could weed through them. So here I am, cleaning up my bedroom, putting laundry away, and listening to these songs. The tears start bubbling to the surface....not really sad about an empty nest, but my daughter is such a sweet heart. She is so bubbly, so full of life, so ready to laugh, so herself all the time. She has been my sunshine-one of the brightest parts of my life, and I will really miss her.

Browsing through pictures this weekend of her and her brothers growing up, sitting in church behind a couple trying to keep a small child settled down, and watching a baby dedication, all gave me flashbacks. I remember all of those moments. I remember dedicating all of my children. I remember so many precious moments, many we still laugh about. One is our favorite for sure....our oldest son had this thing about hiding and jumping out to scare his siblings. One time he hid under Kat's bed and waited for her...then he grabbed her feet! Another time, he hid in a laundry basket and waited on his brother. He jumped out from under the clothes and about scared him to death! [hysterical]

Yep, eyes are a bit wet...time went by so fast...too fast...in a blink the kids were grown, starting families of their own, and now...it is just about time for the empty nest.