I just got off the phone with my beloved daughter. She has not left NY yet. This does not fit into my plans...not at all. Although I feel that God is teaching me more and more daily about her independence from me as a parent, and more and more about her reliance on Him as Father. I know I should be excited, and I am, most of the time. After all this is what we have worked for the last 18 years or so...for her to be able to function as an individual and trusting God with...well, herself. To see her as a young woman faced with all the challenges, opportunities, and excitement that adulthood is offering is something to behold. To not want to step in with my 40 cents worth, but watch her work through decisions, that I could never have handled with such aplomb and grace at her age, or even the age that I am now for that matter. I know she feels she's muddling through, but I see so much growth and maturity in her. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Johanna is this mother's role model.
About Me
- tomirose
- I'm a wife of a wonderful man, mom to three awesome children. I like to laugh, encourage, and I would love to write. I think community is a wonderful thing, and I'd like people to be less cynical about church, not THE church, but the institution that we call the church. I think soul patches, piercings and tattoos are kinda cool; attitudes are not. Sometimes I lie in bed and think about weird things.. like why I like the taste of bubblemint gum, but despise the taste of our youngest son's bubblemint flavored toothpaste, or if our older children have already met their future spouses, how amazing it is that I've been married to the same man for thirty-two years, and why dryer lint looks the way it does. I hate having cold feet, being too hot, and stubbing my pinkie toe. I like to read pretty much anything but angsty poetry, well no I lied..not about the angsty poetry, but I don't much like to read biographies either. Laundry is the bane of my existence, along with cleaning out the refrigerator, and just plain cleaning.
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