When one door closes

In fall of 2002 Megan started school at TAMUG. She became a member of our family, first dog sitting, then babysitting her way through her years in Galveston. When she graduated in 2006 we told her that she would find an empty diploma tube if she did not find us a replacement babysitter. She took us at our word and interviewed sitters, bringing us Kaylyn- her roommate's friend from home, and a freshman at TAMUG.

Kaylyn graduated this past weekend and we attended the ceremony with her parents. Caroline was too little to remember much from Megan's graduation, but was pretty inquisitive at this one. She was excited to see Mrs. Curley's (her preschool teacher) husband up on the stage (He is a professor at TAMUG and reads the names every year). She wanted to know all about the ceremony of things and why only Kaylyn got to wear the "smarty scarf". But the best part was "singing the Aggie football song" at the end. Caroline attended her first football game this past year and she remembered the part where everyone links arms and was not going to let her neighbors get away with just mumbling along.

We were sad to see Kaylyn go, especially with no new babysitting prospects. But when one door closes, God opens another. Hunter was just getting home from fishing when we got home that afternoon. He had gone with a neighbor we had not met before. As it turns out, the neighbor has a high school aged daughter who would loves to babysit. I think I see dinner and a movie in my future.