The Driver

We have a new licensed driver in our house. It at once makes me giddy with excitement (another person to run errands and those pick-ups at school 30 miles away are no more) and also extremely sad. This is my baby...the child on more than one occassion I thought wouldn't be here. The one that the doctor's told me I would lose, the one that has taken enough breathing treatments for asthma only to discover as a young teen it was heart defect, my sweet little girl. The license tells me she is no longer little. She is a young woman....full of freedom, vigor, and interest in that life as to offer. How amazing to see the journey she will take. So while every time she gets in that car my heart will skip a beat and I'll probably be asking her to text me every time she "arrives" somewhere...I do so with love and anticipation and the excitement of what her journey will bring to us all.