Wonderfullly written, Karla! Beautiful!

This is wonderful.You have summed up the feelings only a parent watching his/her children grow.The years do pass so quickly and the y are grown before we know it.I raised my daughter myself and she's now 23 living her own life a couple hours away in another city.We are happy to see them make their own way into the world, but they leave behind so many memories that still can't fully fill the empty spot in home and heart.You have said everything so perfectly and with such great detail and imagery, most of all you capture so well the intensity of emotion so many of us have experinced or are yet to experience.Beautiful.