STOP!

So next week our little girl becomes a teenager.  How did this happen.  Hardly possible that our baby is turning 13.

So often I have told her to "stop growing up."  "Stop being such a big kid."  But now, I am done.  After seeing her next to her Nana this past week, I realized it was done.  She has officially crossed over the threshold and she is actually taller that both her mom and now her Nana.

"STOP!" I say to myself now.  Stop living in denial and realize she is going to have to grow up and you are going to one day have to let go. 

But not today!