When Jamie said she’d ordered a cake for Reagan’s 16th Birthday party from Costco it meant I get to spend time alone with her, I am aware how selfish that sounds but it was my first thought?

Reagan had arranged for 5 freinds to come to the house tonight as her party and being Saturday there was no pressure on anyone. They all arrived at 5:30 by which time Mom with a little help from me had laid out sandwiches, wraps, pizza and snacks from our trip to Chester earlier.

We vacated to the pub along with Lincoln to allow the girls to party alone before we returned around 9pm to watch Netflix in bed while the volume of cackling subsided  until Reagan came to bed saying thanks Mom for making her birthday great.

We just want her to be happy and there is nothing better, just before the furore of GCSEs and leaving school for ever, to see her laughing joking and just being happy relaxed Reagan for a while!

With Lincoln having rehearsals from now until July it is going to be hard to support him and maintain a relaxed evening when we have to drive him to Macclesfield twice a week. So I decided to take my pool cue and my darts and go see if I can find somewhere to hangout for a couple hours instead of me driving there and back and mom driving there and back to pick him up.

It was Macc pool league night tonight so no tables available at the Silk Town Snooker Club so I threw darts for a couple hours which worked, tomorrow I will book a table and see how that goes

As unbelievable as it seams I now have a 16 year old daughter and as the goes “Where did the time go?”

It only seems like yesterday that we were at Leighton waiting for Reagan to arrive yet today is her 16th birthday she is about to take her GCSEs and leave school in the next couple of months.

She definitely makes me proud, she is such a kind intelligent, hardworking, independent and caring young woman and the world is her lobster she can be anything she wants to be.

Our only job, is, as we have always done, to keep guiding her encouraging her and supporting her.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY REAGAN!

Jamie had spent a lot of time this week preparing to preach at church and as I sat there listening to her compared to everyone else that spoke she was head and shoulders better.

It was a polished engaging delivery and the message was concise and interesting which captivated her audience for exactly half an hour as planned.

The feed back she receives each time she preaches is always amazing and it should encourage her and build her confidence if it needs it…

She makes me proud to watch her flourish grow and love what she is doing!

My family has changed, its evolved Jamie has a career which takes her away, tonight she’s in London at the Diva Awards a red carpet event which I know she’ll be loving, rubbing shoulders with celebrities and famous people she has no idea who they are.

Reagan is 15 years old soon to be 16 and after school went to Starbucks for coffee and a revision session with a freind. She came home for 50 minutes showered and changed ate some pizza and left with Elouise to attend youth church.

Lincoln got home from school and ate a snack before showering and changing after which he would have sat around looking at his phone until skating but as soon as I finished work I took him to Mozzas to get pizza which he cooked and we ate along with Elouise who when offered a slice took up that offer.

With the night now my own I took Billy which has to be done, called at the Kings Lock for a VERY poorly pulled pint of Guinness before sliding into a hot bath and getting my full on relax going.

As I lay there I felt fleetingly that I serve no purpose that I am no longer needed by anyone but I also thought that I might just be the steady that they all know is at home the constant safety they know is here when they return?

Boring to most but the one they can always count on to be home if they ever need me….?

That’s ok