Not enough time to just....play.

I was sitting here today watching my little girl play and my mind started wandering. She is so incrediably sweet and loveable and so even tempered. She gives a million kisses a day and hugs even more never even hesitating for a second. She loves to climb all over me and giggle all the while. She can't seem to read enough books in a day...or should I say read "that" one book enough times in one setting! She loves to watch Madagascar and dance her little heart out to all kinds of music anywhere anytime. She loves it when I sing to her...which I will have to say is not at all enough....I guess I should get rid of that insecurity. She smiles at everyone and waves just as many times to perfect strangers. She absolutely ADORES kids and wants to play with the big kids at church so badly but they never seem to wait for her. She never meets a stranger yet is cautious at the same time. She brightens the days and lives of everyone she comes in contact with. She has a wonderful future ahead of her full of all kinds of hopes and dreams to be had, prayers to be answered and lives to have touched. Then it hit me. That little tiny human being that I have been so incrediably blessed with will one day go to school. She will one day cry because of a mean girl/boy who teased her. She will talk my ear off after school with all the fun things they did on the playground and all the interesting things they learned at school. She will do many science projects (that her Daddy will be the one helping with...smarty man!) and have her very first musical play. She will have her first crush. She will go to junior high, have that awkward phase that everyone goes through where your body grows faster than your maturity and you get pimples for the first and hopefully last time. Not to mention the yearbook photos to proove all that. Then she will go into high school where talks of college start creeping in. She will break curfew and want to date boys sooner than her father and I are ready for. We will meet potential boyfriends, hear her giggling as she talks to her friends about her first kiss, miss her smiling face at friday night dinners because we just aren't cool enough to go out with on a weekend night anymore. She will start driving and get her first ticket. She will have her first Homecoming and eventually go to her Prom. She will graduate high school and go on to college. She will bring home boys for her father and I to meet....none of which we will approve of! :o) Until that is, Mr. Right comes along. God will reveal him in His timing and we will know him when we see him and be forever blessed that he has come into her life. They will get married. Wow. I will have to see my precious little girl who sits here now reading her books and gabbering about Elmo one day stand before her Almighty God and wed the man He has for her. And the cycle will start all over.

So needless to say, I have many sleepless, prayerful nights ahead of me waiting and watching what miracle and joy He has in store for my little slobberfaced girl who so lovingly kisses me with all her heart.

Where does the time go?