Im Offically and Old Man Now!

Well it finally happened! Today I spent the better part my early afternoon waiting in a small glass-walled room for Mackenzie Cheryl Nichol. Mackenzie is the youngest of three beautiful daughters all born on the same day, September 11th! I sat with several other parents all waiting with baited breath, (including one that could easily have been Jennifer Aniston’s twin sister just a few years older) for the soon expected return of our children from the examination room. At various intervals throughout the allowed 30 minute test a drama was being played out. It was communicated with sighs of relief, smiles of delight, smiles of proud parents, smiles from the happy clerk behind her massive desk, and even a few smiles from the other expecting parents. That's when the page waving, skipping, smiling MacKenzie came zipping around the corner with an "I-just-past-my-learners-test-for-driving-kind-of-smile" stretching from ear to ear. And it hit me right at that moment, it hit me like a ton of bricks and I felt old. Very old! Like where did the time go kind of old. Two weeks ago I was handing over the keys to the car to Danae and watched from the end of the driveway as she zipped away to her friends place for a birthday party all on her own. I shot a prayer up to the Lord to protect her! And felt old! What do you do when you feel old? You tell yourself you're really not that old yet! There are plenty of people older than me, right? I still seems like I’m in my twenties so I can't be that old! Any way, congratulations to Mackenzie on the passing of your learners test I'm proud really proud of you and congratulations to you Danae on getting your drivers license on the first crack. Way to Go! So all that’s left is Paige, she still has to go for her drivers examination. Hopefully it will take her a while to get it done… I need to recover from the last two! Here's a couple of shots from these recent events…enjoy!