Life In The Middle

Middle : Half-way between two given points, times, etc.
  I hosted a birthday party yesterday.  The guests ranged in age from one to eightyfive.  The party was for my eightyfive year old father and the one year old is my youngest grandchild. 
The children were  running around, playing and having fun.  The adults were eating, joking and remininacing about times past. I was in the middle.  One minute I was on the floor playing with the little ones and next I was fixing my father's plate of food so he could eat. 
My emotions are all over the place.  It's so much fun to watch the children play and listen to their laughter.  At the same time I'm watching my father as he tells one of his old jokes we've all heard a million times.  He laughs and we all laugh with him.  But I know that my time left with him is short and one day I won't hear his laughter any more.
So I guess I'll enjoy being in the middle as long as I can.
My seven year granddaughter Maddie said "Nana, I thought we were going to have a party." We are I said. "But Nana there's nothing but old people here!" she said with her arms in the air like old people don't know how to party.
I'll close with a French Proverb I learned today.
"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age". That is oh so true!