It Stinks When Your Kids Grow Up!

I have determined that it stinks sometimes when your kids grow up!!!

Yesterday we said goodbye to our daughter Bekah as she loaded her car up and begin her trek to Ellendale North Dakota to attend Trinity Bible College.
It was a little over 21 years ago that I saw my parents cry as I loaded up Tammy and Katie and headed to Baton Rouge to attend Bible College myself, now I know how they felt.

Yes Bekah is 18 and legally an adult but maybe I am not ready to give her up yet. I know that she has prayed and sought the Lord about this, but it is still hard to let her go and take on the world so far away.

I still remember her as the “Kamikaze walker” at 7 months old; I remember her getting down from the dinner table and walking over to slam the microwave door shut- because she could not stand it being open.

I remember her having to have her hair just right and the frilly things around her socks. I remember her willing to beat up the big girl on the bus that was giving her older sister Katie a hard time.

I remember her determination to make the cheerleading team in New Mexico, and standing up for what was right when one of the girls on the team was messing up real bad!

I remember her driving that “hot pink” VW bug (with lips and eyelashes painted on the front) it didn’t matter that it never stayed running right or that it had no A/C.

I remember her feeling guilty about taking a hot bath after she evacuated to her grandparents home in CA after Katrina because “she knew many others still were without”

I better quit rambling on, I guess I am just a proud Dad, that loves all his Kids, and hates to say goodbye.