In a little more than a year, life will change in a big way. Sara is engaged and with a lot of love and prayer, will be married in 2011. While it sounds far enough away, the time will fly by. There will be hours of planning, shopping, decisions to be made, decisions to change, people to see, and much to collect in the way of memories.
After the big day, however, a new chapter of life begins. Most of the time, you hear about how the lives of 2 single people change when they marry. No one talks about the life of a parent who gives away that most precious of all gifts, a daughter, to a young man who will command her love and attention.
I don't want to start whining, but the movie What About Bob comes to mind here. Bill Murray plays a funny nut case who drives his psychiatrist, played by Richard Dreyfuss, to extreme measures. Throughout the movie, Murray's character asks "what about me?". And that's sometimes how I feel. What about me? I've spent the past 24 years raising a pretty challenging little girl into an amazing young woman, and now that most of my work is done, what's next?
They say life is scary when you get married and start a new life. I can tell you - life is just as scary when you're on the other end of that deal - so I'm planning to hang on tight and see where this roller coaster takes me next!
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