Well, it has been brought to our attention by more than one person that we have been slacking in the blog dept for the last week. Yes, it has been an entire week since we last blogged. Our friend Tonya thought we'd fallen off the face of the earth, and my little sister sent me a text today saying, and I quote, "What the poo is up with this no bloggn deal?" . Well the deal is we have been pretty busy. UGH! Not busy with anything super worthy of backtrack blogging. Except maybe one really big thing.
On Sunday my little sister graduated high school. Can you believe it? My little 18 year old sister heading out into the world beyond that K-12 building. I'm so proud of her! She's an amazing girl who is turning out to be an amazing woman. It scares me to even use the word "woman", but she's definately not a little girl any more. It was pretty wierd to sit there in that gym watching a class full of young adults graduate and to have to think about that fact that it has been 6 years since I marched across that stage. It brought a lot of mixed emotions out of me. The biggest emotion of course was pride for my little sister, but right behind that was how lucky and blessed I am to be where I am six years later. I remember all the plans that everyone, including myself had for me after graduation. I've pretty much stuck to zero of those plans and I am ten times more happy than I ever thought I could be. In Charlotte's graduation card I wrote that my biggest piece of advice was to remember that family is most important and that no matter what happens after graduation you can always count on your family to love you. The other huge thing I would have to say, is remember to be flexible with the great big plans and dreams that you have for yourself; God's ways are not always our ways. Things that we want and things we think we are going to do, may not be the things that we get or what we are supposed to do. Also sometimes the things that we think we want end up being much less fullfilling than we had thought they would be, especially when we realize that there is something much better than our own plans. Don't get caught up in the small things, the things that 6 years from now, or even 6 months from now won't matter. It's impossible to keep things in perspective yourself, too. It's always very important to have people in your life that you trust to help give you that perspective. You can always count on your family to be the honest ones and keep you grounded.
There are soooo many many things that I have learned in the past 6 years since my graduation that I would love to be able to share with my little sister and anyone else just getting ready to face the world head-on; but I can't. These are things that cannot be told, or taught, they have to be lived. As a big sister, this scares me because I want to shield her and protect her from all the things that she might have to face. I want to warn her and tell her what to do and what not do, but I can't. We can pray, and we will always be here for her. Allen looks at Charlotte as his little sister too. We want nothing but the best in the world for her.
Charlotte we love you!
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