Those of you that have young children, be careful, be very, very careful. It happens when you aren’t looking. You know what I am talking about–you’ve heard it hundreds of times, when you aren’t looking those precious toddlers, elementary schoolers and Tweens grow up. How is it that our daughter is now a senior in high school? Did you hear me? A senior! I blinked and poof, she is a grown young woman with lots of dreams and aspirations. Savor the moments and the memories; they move on in the blink of an eye.

I’ve written about this before but our daughter and her daddy started baking cookies together when she was three. Imagine the melancholy and the tears that welled up when they baked their traditional back to school cookies last week. They decided to shake it up a bit this year and wave good bye to the old favorite of chocolate chip cookies. Out with the old and in with the new, this year they were craving chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. Almost a chocolate chip cookie but a little different. This is how I am going to savor life from now on with our sweet girl. Almost the same but just a wee bit different. After all we are beginning the season of lasts. Last first day of school, last year in the church youth choir, last year as a Girl Scout and the list goes on and on but there is something sweet about the changes ahead. She has her whole life ahead of her and I suspect it will include among it more adventures and varieties of cookie baking in the years to come.

Enjoy the ride! (and the cookies too!)