My Baby...Growing Up

I know that I have not posted in what seems like FOREVER! I had a moment tonight that I really felt like writing about, so I guess I am jumping back into my blog. It has been a difficult week, so this moment, however fleeting, was so precious that I felt like I needed to document it. Lilly Grace had been playing downstairs with her Daddy and had on her princess Belle dress. I was walking up the stairs with her, and she was struggling with getting up the stairs...tripping on her dress and falling as she tried to navigate each step. I grabbed her waist and explained to her that if she picked up her dress in the front that she wouldn't trip. I held her dress for her as she ascended the stairs, and a mixture of emotion and premonition hit me like a ton of bricks. As I held her dress, I got a mental picture of her wedding day and me helping her walk in her dress. I began to tear up as a realized (and prayed) that I would be able to help her navigate her way to what will one day be her future husband on the one day that she will actually be a princess. I wanted to capture that moment forever...as a little girl who needs me to tell her how to walk in her gown because I know that one day she will be able to do it on her own. I said a little prayer in the middle of my emotional moment that she will again ask for my help on her wedding day and that she will still remember how much I love her and cherish her precious heart as I let her go, as a woman, to begin her life with her husband. I love you, Lilly-Bean!