Slipping Through My Fingers

This is something I wrote for my girls after seeing the musical "Mama Mia". Today I pulled it up because I was feeling the time speed by.....

Your dad and I went to see the musical, Mamma Mia last night. When I heard this song, I cried because it described my feelings so perfectly. My two little girls are growing up and time is indeed slipping through my fingers. This is my last year with two preschoolers at home. Nest year, everything changes as Madeleine heads off to Kindergarten… I know God created time and its passage so I rest at peace in the knowledge that he intends for you to grow and become young women. God must know it’s hard for a mother to see her babies grow up. I am sure He treasures those tears that mothers shed and saves them for eternity when we can all be together forever.

Slipping Through My Fingers
ABBA – from the musical Mama Mia

Schoolbag in hand
She leaves home
In the early morning
Waving good-bye
With an absent-minded smile
I watch her go
With a surge of
That well-known sadness
And I have to sit down
For a while
The feeling that I’m
Losing her forever
And without really
Entering her world
I’m glad whenever I
Can share her laughter
That funny little girl

Slipping through my fingers
All the time
I try to capture
Every minute
The feeling in it
Slipping through my fingers
All the time
Do I really see what’s
In her mind
Each time I think
I’m close to knowing
She keeps growing…

Sometimes I wish
That I could freeze
The picture
And save it from
The funny tricks of time
Slipping through my fingers