Our story begins as many stories do

Crying and snuggling were all we knew

Waking parents from sleep was our main goal

Though we drove them crazy we were content with the love we stole

 

Suddenly we're five not caring how fast time flies

Our 12 year old siblings are practically adults in our eyes

Causing mayhem and being spoiled was our only concern

Someday we knew we'd thank our parents for being so stern

 

Like a flash of lightening we're now 12 wishing we were older

Yet we feel if we were our days would be colder

No matter, for now we'll relax, have fun and enjoy our life

Forgetting the years ahead that will undoubtedly cause strife

 

The year we turn fourteen marks the year we enter high school

We struggle to balance life and classes and still attempt to be cool

The next four years will with no doubt be the toughest yet

Those years full of emotions most people will likely forget

 

We survive to eighteen, making it to graduation day

We've had our fair share of ups and downs along the way

It's time to head out into the world, we are a little scared

Tears fall as we say goodbye to friends knowing the time we shared

 

Entering college, an unfamiliar place filled with unfamiliar faces

Our hearts feel void of happiness, loneliness filling in the spaces

Yet we try to appear strong and completely fearless

We long for days that are comfortable and nights that are tearless

 

We make it though college not really knowing how

Graduation all over again new friends to say goodbye to now

Yet somewhere in our hearts memories with them will be held

Memories locked in this place where for so long we dwelled

 

At twenty-five just when we thought we’d never become a wife

Our boyfriend asks the question we've been waiting to hear all our life

We cry as we tell all our family and friends the news

In our heart we know he was the right one to choose

 

Another five years and its time to bring that baby into the world

We've been in pain for almost 24 hours, at times we almost hurled

Something doesn't feel quite right it all feels very odd

We cry with our husband as we give our first child to God

 

Yet another five years go by its time to try again

24 more hours of grueling pain then we say hello to our little Jen

Can you die of happiness is the question that we ask

Raising this child right in our world will surely be a task

 

It's seven a.m. ten years later and it's time to get up

We get a reminder of this by being mauled by our son Jacob

Jen is 10, Jacob 7 and Sam who is two is chewing up our only comb

Mom is home with the children, father goes out and works, it's a good home

 

It seems that the next twenty years go by in an instant

One by one we see our children married they now seem so distant

We've entertained more than one grandchild in our home

Isn't crazy how Peter's first word was Shalom?

 

Once upon a time we thought sixty was old

Eighty is so very different from what we had been told

Our children's children now have lives of their own

Rocking in our rocking chairs at home we feel so alone

 

At ninety years old we feel our souls slipping into peace

The last things we remember are the tears from our family as we did cease

No one knows what happens after we depart

But at the end of all things we know we lived our lives with all our heart