Sixteen & single?

So today I turned 16! Yay!! 

-Insert Confetti 

& balloons everywhere- 

As I was thinking last night about how "16" is the age that my parents said I could start dating, etc.

I thought about how much I have dreamt & planned in my mind for this "unrealistically perfect" day to happen & how everything would be just as I ever dreamt... 

A charming, hand-some "prince" in suit & tie, 

(who would now be my boy-friend & one day husband!!) 

Would arrive at my door at exactly half-past eight with 16 red roses in hand, he then would ask me out on a special birthday date! (With my parents permission of course!) 

I magically would be ready to go in just a few minutes! 

I would be wearing a puffy, sparkly dress, high-heels & my hair would be done just so :) 

 We would go out for a delicious, fancy dinner & then we would take a chilly midnight stroll through a local vine-yard hand in hand...where we would ring in the new year together under the stars <3 

We then would fall in love 

& the rest would be history! :) 

I know its pretty unrealistic but,

 I'm still hoping it happens one day!! 

Aww! Makes me smile just thinking about it :) 

Well anyways...No princes or red roses showed up today at my house yet

& I'm totally okay with that! 

When my parents first told me that I had to wait till I was 16 to date...

I thought It would be so hard to have to wait. 

I always have had the mindset that the day after I turned 16 my relationship status would change & my life would be radically different forever...

Apparently not! 

 I have quoted this before in my post called "The Season of waiting" & 

I absolutely still love this quote!! 

“She was far too busy living out a passionate romance with Jesus Christ to be pining after an earthly prince.” –Leslie Ludy

I need to get this plastered all over my bedroom walls, Because I often lose sight that I am in a serious relationship with the King of kings...

& sometimes I can become discouraged,frustrated, & unhappy because I don't have that special significant other. 

(Like mostly everyone else) 

Some days I am happy & I love being "single" & then some days my heart aches so badly to be like everyone else "in a relationship." 

On those days that I am feeling lonely & unlike the rest ...

I sit down in a comfy spot turn on some worship music & write a letter to my future prince, 

(as strange as that sounds) 

I store them away in a safe keeping place so that one day I can give that special someone all my love letters! 

I have already given my heart to this "Prince" 

I will one day meet.

I pray for him daily & I am devoted to him already in love, & in my purity. 

I look forward to one day meeting him! But if the time is not now I will enjoy the season of life I am in to the fullest! 

Today before I end this little 

Birthday post,

 I want to extend my gratefulness to my parents for the 

"16 dating rule"...without that rule I could have easily messed up my life by rushing into things that I was unsure about & totally not ready for. 

Though I may have been a little upset about having this rule in the beginning, 

I now have a totally different perspective of how to look at it 

& I am SO grateful for it :) 

Now off to enjoy my completely realistic 16th birthday...

I wouldn't have it any other way!! 

Thanks for dropping by! 

Happy new year!! 

Until next time,

Kerrington