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Happy/Sad

by Jean Lockwood

I am sort of a happy/sad right now. My first child to leave home is moving out this weekend. I know it is for the best for her and her husband to get an apartment, and I am happy for them.
I also know that we are all in for quite an adjustment. Yes, it has been crowded here. Yes, we don’t have much room. Yes, I will be glad to have my office back.
But………..
I will miss seeing them every day.
I will miss having the dinner table set for 10 every night.
I will miss their laughter and their cute ways with my other kids.
I will miss them being here, I guess that about sums it up. Them just being here.

Now, for my plans………
I am going to have my office back, and we will have our downstairs bathroom back!!!
YippEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

I know it seems that I am going from one extreme to the other, and maybe I am.
But I am a mother, with a mother’s heart.
I love my kids, and want to have them with me forever, but I know it is normal and in God’s plan for them to leave and go on to do His will, using the gifts He has given them, doing what He wants of them.
His plans are always best.
So I will continue to do my job of being mom, and praying for them.
And I may cry that first night they are gone- but I will also rejoice in God’s goodness and faithfulness to always watch over them and take care of them.
After all, they were His kids first.


Posted in General on June 26th, 2007

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