New Beginnings

by Tammy Hall Parker on Friday, March 25, 2011 at 1:14pm

It's Spring and with it come all the changes you see this time of year. The leaves come out from hiding and the flowers start to bloom. Families start to have new beginning too. So many things happening and so many things moving so fast. It's like a whirlwind has hit the house and I wonder where it will all end up. My oldest son Zach will be an Easter baby this year, I say baby because he will always be my baby, but from time to time his birthday falls on Easter. Then Alyssa has her senior prom the end of April. We have picked out her dress and she just glows in it. Then we get to look forward to her new beginning, she will graduate May 27th. She is already learning that being grown up carries alot of responsibility and as all teenagers do she is learning some decisions are really hard to make. Now she knows why I wanted her to enjoy every drop of being a teenager and not try to go out and be a grown up there is always time for that later. She has always been responsible enough that we didn't feel like we had to test that by making her get a job as long as she was reasonable about her wants and needs. After graduation she will start college and have a job and all the responsibility will be hers, so I hope she enjoyed being a child as long as she could. But just a week after graduation comes a huge day for my oldest son Zach and his beautiful fiance Beth. They will get married and start their life together. They will have alot to learn about married life as time goes on but I know the two of them will make it through all the tough times and will live the best times to their fullest. Zach may be lucky getting married to such a wonderful person, but I think we are the lucky ones I could not have asked for a better person to love my son enough to put up with us. She is warm, friendly, compassionate, kind and loving and we all have loved her from the moment we met her.
Where have my babies gone? It seems like just the other day I was rocking them in my arms and dreaming about all the things they may grow up to be. Now they are starting their new lives. Their new beginnings. Now its time to start thinking about what will happen when Kelcy is out on her own. The house sure is getting empty fast. That is why Jeff and I have started to think about what we will do. His retirement is alot closer than I thought a few months ago. When the girls finish college it will be time for our new beginning. When I was 18 I started looking down a road with alot of twists, turns and bends. Now a new road is being built and I am going to see where it goes, Jeff by my side and new beginnings for the both of us. But it doesn't matter where the road leads as long as we are together and our family is happy and they know that we will leave a trail on the road we take so they can always catch up to us if they need us. But isn't why there are chapters in books, so they can combine everything that is going on into one long book? Each one of us is a chapter and we each start it off with a new beginning.