Too Short

Well this was definitely a great weekend but very busy. This weekend C came home to be in a friends wedding. Hard to believe that these munchkins I used to drive all over town are now getting married and will have little munchkins of their own someday. It was truly a moment of pride watching C and her dad dance a slow dance at the wedding reception. I remember the first and perhaps it was even the last time my dad danced with me (he is gone now, rest his soul), it just brings tears to your eyes to watch this now grown up munchkin in this truly beautiful gown dancing with her father knowing that she too will someday in the not too distant future be looking into her dad's eyes on her own wedding day. Where does the time go? When did they turn from this needy soul to this self sufficient adult? When did it go from kissing their little booboos to now kissing their broken or saddened hearts?
It was really great having C home for the weekend but I also know that her heart was torn, torn to be in a place she spent most of her life, in the "safe" and well guarded surroundings of "home", but also wanting to be with the young man that she now holds true love and passion for, the different type of heart aching from being "home" sick. What did we do without cell phones when we were growing up and away from our "honey's" for more than a day. The frequent texting and calls all hours of the day and night for the quick, "I miss you" and "I love you". Today's romance is definitely different from 20-30 years ago.
It is fun watching our offspring grow in their relationships with that someone "special", remembering back when we too were all googly eyed. The dating scene is different today though. Things are so much more expensive and they all seem to be growing up so fast and working all the time to get that "edge". I wish they could have been kids for just a little bit longer.
Don't get me wrong I have loved every stage of life these munchkins have gone through and it always seems like the stage we are in is better than the one before. My offspring have turned out truly terrific if I do say so myself, they have always made me proud and given me joy even through that terrible two stage that really wasn't all that terrible after all.
Yes there never does seem like enough time but I have never been more proud than I am today or was yesterday or the day before that.
Oh bother......