This GIFT….

Have you ever looked at your kids and thought…

“Wow, I am WAY too flawed and broken to have helped make ANYTHING like that!!!”?????

I have……..

A lot……..

Because I am REALLY flawed and broken and they are sooo PURE and WHOLE.

The past 2 weeks have been full of …

costumes

make-up

tights

friends

hair pieces

Driving and driving

teacher gifts

dress rehearsals

family

cousins

bobby pins

buns

quick changes

sweat

and

recitals.

Several times during the last few weeks I have found myself STARING at these girls in wonder…

Who will they be?

What is in store for them?

Where will they go?

What will they DO?

What does the future LOOK like???

Those questions seep from my mind like fog…

Slowly permeating EVERY PIECE of my soul.

I look at them and how beautiful and talented they are….

and I PRAY.

I pray that I have a good enough memory to remember

every

single

thing.

I want to remember every moment of this.

I want it to be PERMANENTLY embedded in my mind.

I want to be able to SMELL this in 50 years.

Thru all this …

1 thing kept coming to my mind???

How did I get so blessed????

How did I make it to HERE without RUINING anyone?

yet…LOL

As I watched the girls dance I was so OVERWHELMINGLY PROUD of the gifts that God has given them..

As I sit on my bed now and write this…I feel FULL.

FULL of life and love and soooo GRATEFUL that I was given this GIFT of a life.