Daughters and Granddaughters

Today is my first-born granddaughter's 20th birthday. Today she leaves behind her teen-age years and embraces the world of young adult-hood. And her grandmother - ahem - ME - shakes my head in disbelief and wonders where the years have gone.

Three days earlier this same grandmother - ahem - ME - sat in the stands at our local coliseum and watched my second-born granddaughter walk across a stage leaving behind her high school years, embracing a diploma and stepping into the new adventure of her future. I shook my head in disbelief and wondered where the years have gone.

Where HAVE all the years gone? They've gone the way of all the other years of our past - storing their sweetest memories in our hearts as treasures forever. For such is the way of life. Hours pass into days. Days pass into weeks . . . weeks into months . . . months into years . . . and then, somehow before we know what has happened, the years have evaporated and we find ourselves searching for remembrance of them in the corners of our minds - and in photo albums.

Daughters are born

Lori in 1966

Lisa in 1971

Daughters grow up and graduate

Lori in 1983

Lisa in 1990 (with her Mamaw and Papaw Wooley)

Daughters get married

Lori in 1986

Lisa in 1990


And daughters give birth to daughters of their own

Mallory is born to Lori, May 25, 1989

Hillary is born to Lisa, September 24, 1990


Daughters enjoy their daughters' growing up

Lori with both her daughters in 1997

Lisa with Hillary in 1997



And then, in the blink of an eye, their daughters are graduating

Mallory from homeschooled high school (with her favorite teacher - her mom!)

Then, from Pitt Co. Community College, May 2008

Hillary - THS graduation May 17, 2009 (with her BFF, Robynn)

Mallory with her fiance, Mike Bosse. They will be married next January.

Yes, years come and years go. Daughters are born and daughters grow up. And the years of memories dance their way across our hearts with unending music and joy.

Many daughters have done excellently,

but you, my precious daughters and granddaughters,

surpass them all in my heart.

Proverbs 31:29