My new reality - I am getting old

I had a new reality tonight - I AM GETTING OLD or should I say my kids are making me feel old!

Tonight was freshman orientation at KA's new high school. Yes you heard that right...high school. I can't believe I have a child who is entering high school. We made our way into the auditorium where they were handed a t-shirt and told to sit in the bleachers for further instructions. We watched as the cheerleaders tried to get new the students to participate in a school cheer while dazed and confused parents, much like myself, sat on the bleachers trying to figure out how in the world they got there. Wasn't it just a few years ago that I was sitting at some pep rally watching some cheerleaders do the same thing at my high school. How is it possible I have a child sitting next to me who is now venturing off to this same adventure called HIGH SCHOOL?!

We took the tour of the ancient school located in rural suburb. It is like a school that I have never seen. The schools in the San Diego area where I grew up were fairly new at least by comparison to this school. This high school was built in the early 1900's. It is three stories tall with all sorts of scroll work and marble floors. It is like all those schools you see in the movies. We walked up and down the stairs through these old hallways in an attempt to figure out where all of her classes will be. One of her classes looks like it is in the basement of the school. Like I said crazy!

I had to just stop at times and just look around. I am here with my child who is wearing a t-shirt that says "Class of 2013" on the back of it. I will only have her around with me for four more years. Time has flown by. You always hear people tell you that when you have a baby and you look at them lik they have lost their minds. How can that be when I am standing in pajamas that haven't been changed in two days, which was the last time you took a shower by the way, smelling like baby puke and poo as your child whom you carried for the last nine months is totally inconsolable in your arms. Time fly by...yeah right?!

But it does...time flies so fast that one day you are crying because you haven't slept in days and you can't make the child go to sleep and the next day you are standing at freshman orientation realizing you have four years left to "hang out" with them.

Don't get me wrong, I am so happy for KA to go to high school. She is going to learn so much and do so much. I don't want her to miss out on anything. But I don't want to miss out on anything either!

Oh well, enough sadness for tonight. The sun will come up tomorrow.

Never mind...tomorrow is middle school orientation with AJ. This year is going to be one roller coaster of a year!

Jehovah Jireh - Our provider

We really do serve a miraculous heavenly father! We were singing today in church, "How great is our God," and I found my self just thinking how that statement is so true. Our God is so great there are really no words that I know of to truly describe how great my/our God is.

Our family had and is currently having some miraculous things happen that can only be described as a God thing. There is just simply no way to have these things happen other than with God's hand leading and moving through the process. I can't go into full detail yet as we are still awaiting true confirmation, but what has happened so far and what we think will happen next is truly an answer to prayer! There is no logical reason for it to be happening. We were hoping and believing for it to come true but realistically the world's answer would have been a resounding "NO!"

But we serve a BIG GOD who holds us in the palm of His hand. He is Jehovah Jireh - Our Provider.

Let me just say this as encouragement to those who are going through financial trouble right now...God is faithful. God will provide. It may not always be in the way we think it will be, but He is faithful. Trust God to open doors that seem to be closed and to close doors that need to be forgotten. Trust, believe and have faith that what He says He will do.

Hebrews 11:1 (NLT)- Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.