Today my baby girl turns 15! I can't believe it. When I had her and I was holding her for the first time it was hard to believe that I would ever see this day. You just think they will stay little forever. Well maybe not think it but you hope it. But little by little at first, the time slips away. And then one day things start moving faster and before you know it you are taking her to school for the first time. I remember that day, I was so nervous and she was too. She did fine, I did not. LOL! That's pretty much how her school career has gone up until this point. She is now in the ninth grade. And yet again I am not sure exactly how that happened. Maybe I broke the one rule we all as parents know not to break but we all do, yep you guessed it...I blinked. And the next thing I knew she was in high school and in four all too short years she will be in college. My Shelby...yes I am crying if you are wondering..I can...I am allowed she is and will forever be my very first ever little girl. The one who taught me how to love and who has always loved me unconditionally. You see Shelby prepared the way for me to understand how my heavenly Father could love me so unconditionally and as I would find out through the years way more beyond anything I could imagine. Yep this little human life that I have been entrusted with for the past fifteen years has taught me so much more than I have taught her. See I don't claim to have all the wisdom in the world when it comes to parenting and Lord knows I never will this side of heaven...but this much I do know...I have learned so much more from her than I could ever have imagined. If we will just listen to our kids they have so much inside them that is greater than we can even imagine. Because I had Shelby so young in many ways we have grown up together and you want to know something that will just blow your mind away? Well It's my blog so I will tell you anyway......Even if I could go back knowing now what I didn't know then...I wouldn't change a single thing. Those are just some of my random thoughts for the day about my Shelby and her big day. I'm sure there will be more in no certain order. Some will make sense to some of you. Most won't to any of you. But that's okay because in the words of my good friend Dara Crouch, It's my blog so that's okay. Anyway, I digress...Happy Birthday Shelby Lynne Schilke! I love you and I can't wait to see what the next year brings.