The Last Prom?

Last night we watched our fifth child get ready and go to her Senior Prom.  She looked beautiful, but then again, I'm her mother and I am biased.  All five of my children looked beautiful on their prom days, and between the five of them, they went to a total of 10 proms, 5 junior proms and 5 senior proms. 

It seems like only yesterday, that I went to my junior and senior proms with their father.  I can close my eyes, and still see Donnie in his white tux and peach ruffled shirt to match my peach prom dress for our junior prom as we took pictures by my parents lilac tree.  For our senior prom he wore a black tux with pink to match my pink princess prom gown.  (On a side note, I totally hated my hair for senior prom, who ever thought a big bun on top of your head was pretty.....it was awful....but Donnie still thought I looked beautiful, and that is all that really matters ). I think every boy and girl looks beautiful on prom night.

I thought I would cry last night, as I watched my baby getting ready for her prom, with her two older sisters there to support her, but the tears didn't come.  I kept thinking....this is the last prom for my children, shouldn't I be sad.  I wasn't sad, I was filled with love and joy, because I know that this isn't the last prom.  Donnie's 100 year old grandmother was there to see Jane off to her prom last night, and she has seen her two daughters proms, her 9 grandchildrens many proms, and including Jane, she has now seen 16 of her 21 great grandchildrens proms.  I wonder if she ever thought she saw the last prom when her baby (my mother-in-law, who by the way went to both her proms with my father-in-law) went to her senior prom.  Well if she did think that, we now know that that is not true.  In the circle of life, the proms never end.  I hope to see many more proms, as I someday become a grandmother, and with gods blessings, maybe a great grandmother too! 

I am so grateful and blessed to have Donnie's grandmother in my life and in my childrens lives, she reminds me that there are no last proms....only many more first proms to come.