SO MUCH STUFF!!

So what's up with Cindy these days? What's NOT up with Cindy?! Rachel's senior piano recital is today at 6 PM. She is the featured, or should I say, the ONLY performer. She is quite stressed, which in turn makes her mother quite stressed! I know she plays very well and I'm sure she'll do a great job, but she is so stressed that she'll probably mess up because of that. She keeps asking herself why she agreed to do this. She has so much more courage than me. I don't think I could have had a recital where I was the only performer. I'm quite the proud mom!

She also graduates from high school in ten days. My baby. My little baby girl. Time is so weird. How is it that we can remember some things that happened years ago like they were yesterday, and yet some things that happened last month seem eons ago? I remember so well the days when she and I would be at home together before she started Kindergarten. Her favorite lunch was mac and cheese. We often made this lunch and pretended. She was Jessica (since that would have been her name had David been a girl) and I was Sarah. She was always excited when I was asked to substitute for a teacher at the last minute and couldn't find a babysitter. I simply took her with me. If I subbed for Kindergarten, as a three-year-old she fit right in. In three months, she'll be moving to Tuscaloosa to begin her life at Bama. This...is...not...possible. Not my baby! But I am quite proud of her. She will do well. She is majoring in music therapy and pre-med. You go girl!

Three weeks from today, David is getting married to our sweet Eva. Again--not possible! These are my babies! How can this be? Eva was here last night and they were talking about children. Children? Me? A grandmother? I'm not that old! Am I? Well, I guess I am. Ready or not. Here it comes. Once again, that time thing is so weird. I remember so well standing in Ricky and Anita Crow's front yard when he was probably about 18 months to 2 years. David, Jillian (the Crow's daughter), another boy names Wes and a girl named Megan were playing. They were all about the same age. Megan and Jillian were kind of chilling, and David and Wes were being quite rambunctious. We were commenting, even at that point, of the differences in boys and girls. Jillian and Megan were just looking at David and Wes as if they were saying, "What in the world is your problem?"

I also remember when Rachel and David became such good friends with Meredith and Emily Childers. A large storm swept through our neighborhood and blew down a portion of the Childers' fence. Later, David and Emily were in their perspective backyards. Emily saw David on his swing set and came over to play. Not long after that, Rachel and Meredith started playing together. David and Emily were five; Rachel and Meredith were two. They've all been best friends since then. It's really cool since I graduated with Emily and Meredith's parents, Tim and Kathy. They're such good friends that Emily is going to be in David's wedding. IN THREE WEEKS! I still can't believe it!

Obviously, all of this has me quite stressed. As tired as I usually am, I'm even more tired now. I am supposed to have a treatment this coming Thursday. Well, as I told my family, my doctor can bite me! LOL! It will be fine. I'll wait until June 4, the Monday after the wedding. I've gone five weeks between treatments before. It would be an EXTREME challenge for me to have a treatment this week, five days later the graduation, and 11 days after that the wedding. I'll be fine. God has me in His Hands.

Obviously, I need a lot of prayer. I ALWAYS need a lot of prayer, but I just need a different sort of prayer right now. I still need healing prayer, but I need extra prayers for peace as well. I am so thankful that I can ask my blog friends for it and know that I will get it. You all rock!

God is in control. He always has been, and He always will be. Time is fleeting. Enjoy each and every day.