As if this year has not been hard enough on us. We have now entered the "boyfriend" stage of life. {SIGH} I am SO not ready for this. Why is it kids have to grow up?? I have found myself really emotional this week. UGH why has this been so hard on me? I find myself extremely happy for our oldest daughter. Then in another moment I find myself extremely sad. My little girl has grown up! She is no longer that little girl that needs her mom. I know that we always need our moms.
So now onto the young man. It started by him "friending" my husband on Facebook. At first we had no idea he was interested in taking her out. Then that phone call came. He called to ask if he could take her out. I have to admit he really had us at that point. The next night my husband arranged a time for both of us to chat with him. It was about an hour conversation. My husband was pretty blunt with the young man about our beliefs regarding dating and such. He answered the questions without any hesitation.
He lives a little way from our home. Which is a good thing in our book. Also neither of them have access to a car. SO in order to see each other we are the ones who play taxi. So this weekend we are picking him up and he will spend a few days with us. He has a few special things planned for our daughter. They are going to dinner. One thing about living in the town that we do is everyone knows each other. SO I am always saying I have eyes all over the village. haha
My husband plans on taking him out fishing so they can chat some more face to face. I still do not think I'm ready for this. Can't we just go back to have really little kids????
As I type this up she is in the kitchen making cookies for him. She has informed everyone they are for him only! If he would like to share then that's ok with her. {sigh} So please remember us in prayer as we embark on this next stage of life.
Hearing them talk and the more we get to know him the more we remember our dating years. We find them saying things to each other that just makes my husband and I smile. He really does remind me of a younger version of my husband.
4 comments:
Oh, Jen....sigh......
Oh Jen, I don't envy you this phase, I know I'll be headed that way eventually with my daughter too.
You have raised amazing kids and I'm happy that Katrina has found someone who seems to treat her right and loves her right back. :)
I'm not looking forward to this either. I have 4 kids of "dating" age (although I prefer the courting). So far we've not had anything to worry about...no dates. But when they do (can't say "IF") then I'm praying it'll be more like my oldest daughter where her now husband spent lots of time at our house. Money was hard to come by so they didn't have lots of dates out. So he'd hang out here A LOT! I'm OK with that. They just celebrated their 13th anniversary (that long already!!) and have given us 4 beautiful grandkids.
Have fun! {{HUGS}}
I feel your pain...
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