Breanna

So today my wonderful niece Breanna went to go take her driver's license test.

(She failed the written by one, but came back the next day and got it!)

Let me just say that makes me feel ancient.

I mean really old.

You really do sit and ask yourself, "where has the time gone?"

I was in Ireland when Breanna was born (a point Brea often brings up), but when I got home I just doted on that little girl. She was an amazingly cute baby. Huge eyes and big smile.

 I took hours of video and tons of pictures. I was barely a Junior in high school so I had tons of energy to play with her.

As a toddler it was so easy to get her to laugh and hug me tight around the neck. All I had to do was make funny faces and weird sounds. 

Now, a teenager, it is like I am an alien stepping foot on a strange planet whenever I enter her world.

I inevitably say something that causes her to roll her eyes at me and sigh that deep

 ("Oh Aunt Lisa you just don't get it")

 sigh.

And I still can't help it. She is still that sweet little girl looking up at me with those big eyes.

It is hard to see her as the woman she is/has become, but I am very proud of her.

Ella es hermosa.

 I still like to make funny faces at her, but now she joins in with me...

After all she's had years of practice!

 We both love to sing and dance. She's only a tad better than me at both...

 Oh Banana, 

Time goes by so fast.

As we hold on to hands and embrace the minutes past,

Time,

She marches on and leaves us all wondering.

Still, when I look at you it is like a map.

My past, my history.

Times of joy and laughter,

times we'd rather not remember.

As we hold on to hands let us embrace the hours to come,

Time.

I am grateful for your gifts.