Grow

Yep! It's Five Minute Friday and I'm linking up with Lisa-Jo, over at The Gypsy Mama. I love Lisa-Jo! And...speaking of linking up - my Sunday link-up begins this Saturday night. 

I'm looking forward to seeing you here! 

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This morning in the dermatologist’s office, the doctor asked me how my daughter is and my reaction caught me by surprise. I cried. Right there in the exam room.

And the doctor didn’t miss a beat. She reached out and touched my arm and let me keep on going. “I just love my kids so much and they are so far away.”

I didn’t even realize just how much it sits there. Right there at the top of my heart, where the covering has worn away over the years.

It’s true what the people tell you. When you’re standing in the check-out line, bleary-eyed from lack of sleep and two o’clock AM feedings and ear infections and chicken pox and such. They grow. And they do it quickly. And they’re supposed to. And when they do, it is a beautiful thing.

They change the world and you knew they would. But what you didn’t know is how their growing stretches you in unexpected places, and how it changes how you think and the songs you sing on a rainy day and the way your very own heart surprises you in the most unusual ways.

They grow up, and while they’re doing it, so do you.

Photo of me and my son at his College (yes! COLLEGE!) graduation.