Happy 4th birthday, sweet girl! You are so smart and funny and beautiful. You amaze me every day with the words you learn and use and the funny things you say. You love to play with your toys and make up little stories with them and I love to hear your sweet little voice.
This year was your first birthday party with your friends there and you had such a wonderful time. You are a sweet friend and I'm so glad you have been able to make friends in your preschool class this year.
You seem to grow and change before my very eyes! It is exciting to see you learn and grow and do so many new things, but I also want to cherish you as you are right now. Your sweet little hands, your arms around my neck.. your sweet little voice. You tell me "I love you" all the time and I love it so very much. You love to snuggle with me at night in my bed. You give the best hugs and kisses. And you are so happy and grateful for everything.
I love to see the world through your eyes. Next year, you are coming to Mommy's school for pre-K. I honestly can't wait. I can't wait to be with you every day to see you learn and grow and make friends and to share it all with you.
Happy birthday, sweet Caroline! I love you so very much! Thank you for letting me see the world through your beautiful eyes!
Love,
Mommy
3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3
Sunday, July 14, 2019
Friday, June 14, 2019
Dear Chloe
Today you are eleven years old. This has been a great year for you! You sailed right into middle school without a care in the world. You have done so well in school and you have developed some new interests. You decided to play basketball this year, and you grew so much. It was so fun watching you and your brother play under the same number this year.
You also decided to join drama club this year and you were amazing! It was a small number of you performing "The Wright Sisters", but you were so calm and cool... even in front of the entire school! You also joined the band this year and you have done well learning to read music and play the clarinet. You seem to like music and have also been teaching yourself the ukelele.
You and your friends are so smart and funny and witty! I love to listen to you guys together. You love writing stories and poetry, and creating movies together.
Middle school can be a tough time and I hope it is not for you. Right now, you are full of confidence and I love that about you! You work hard and try hard at all that you do and you don't much care what anyone else thinks or says. I hope you keep that confidence in yourself. Because you are right... you can do anything you put your mind to and work for... always believe that and I promise I will believe it for you, too.
I love you so much Chloe. You make me so very proud to be your mom.
Happy birthday, Bug!
Love,
Mom
You also decided to join drama club this year and you were amazing! It was a small number of you performing "The Wright Sisters", but you were so calm and cool... even in front of the entire school! You also joined the band this year and you have done well learning to read music and play the clarinet. You seem to like music and have also been teaching yourself the ukelele.
You and your friends are so smart and funny and witty! I love to listen to you guys together. You love writing stories and poetry, and creating movies together.
Middle school can be a tough time and I hope it is not for you. Right now, you are full of confidence and I love that about you! You work hard and try hard at all that you do and you don't much care what anyone else thinks or says. I hope you keep that confidence in yourself. Because you are right... you can do anything you put your mind to and work for... always believe that and I promise I will believe it for you, too.
I love you so much Chloe. You make me so very proud to be your mom.
Happy birthday, Bug!
Love,
Mom
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.” - Ecclesiastes 9:10 (NIV)
Friday, May 24, 2019
Dear Evan
How is it possible that you are finished with middle school and headed off to high school? More than ever, as I watch all of your middle school "lasts", I feel as if time is slipping through my fingers so quickly and no matter how much I try to hold onto it, I can't. What will the next 4 years bring?
I expect it will bring lots of new "firsts" for you and for us. I know your dad and I will have to learn to navigate parenting an increasingly independent young man. Balancing between letting you go, letting you decide, letting you act and holding on, holding back, advising. It's a tough place to be as a parent- especially for the first time.
Four years. Four years is what we have left with everything just the way it is right now. Four years with all the birds in the nest. Four years to get you ready to fly. Four years for us to get ready to fly. When I think of that, it terrifies me, to be completely honest.
Before you went to kindergarten, I remember this feeling of panic... that you weren't ready. The time had been too short. I had not done enough, taught you enough. I was not ready. I have to admit I feel a little bit like that right now, too. It feels like the beginning of an end, but I'm trying my best not to think of it that way.
Four years. There is a lot of life and love to happen in four years. Four years ago you were turning 10. Still a boy, but beginning to transition into "tween". I can still see that big smile that you still threw away so easily back then. The boy voice from that 10 year old has gone.. it seemed to change overnight. The thin arms and legs are becoming muscular. The soft boy face and jaw replaced by something... harder, firmer, more decisive. Yes, four years goes by quickly, too quickly even... but I'm so grateful for four years. We have a lot to do, a lot to learn in four years and I can't wait for it.
It has been so fun watching you and your friends over the last few weeks of middle school. I'm so glad you have wonderful friends. You are getting ready to enter four of the best years of your life. I know it will not always feel that way, but these next four years are going to be full of fun and amazing memories for you and your friends. I pray that these friendships will continue to strengthen and that you will make friends that will last your whole life.
It is hard for me to even close my eyes and imagine what the next four years will bring... fun, memories, school spirit, driving, dating.... learning, growing, changing. Yes, we both have a lot to do in the next four years. We both have a lot of getting ready to do. But I know we are up to the challenge. I pray that as we learn and grow and change, we do so together and not apart.
Just as I watched you take your first steps away from me... your first steps into school... this fall I will watch you take your first steps toward something else. Something all your own and less of me. Yes, I worry... are we ready? But ready or not, here we go!
Deep down, I know you are. I know you will do amazing things and just as it has been for your entire life, it will be my privilege to watch you learn and grow. I love you so much, Evan. Happy birthday, buddy!
Love,
Mom
I expect it will bring lots of new "firsts" for you and for us. I know your dad and I will have to learn to navigate parenting an increasingly independent young man. Balancing between letting you go, letting you decide, letting you act and holding on, holding back, advising. It's a tough place to be as a parent- especially for the first time.
Four years. Four years is what we have left with everything just the way it is right now. Four years with all the birds in the nest. Four years to get you ready to fly. Four years for us to get ready to fly. When I think of that, it terrifies me, to be completely honest.
Before you went to kindergarten, I remember this feeling of panic... that you weren't ready. The time had been too short. I had not done enough, taught you enough. I was not ready. I have to admit I feel a little bit like that right now, too. It feels like the beginning of an end, but I'm trying my best not to think of it that way.
Four years. There is a lot of life and love to happen in four years. Four years ago you were turning 10. Still a boy, but beginning to transition into "tween". I can still see that big smile that you still threw away so easily back then. The boy voice from that 10 year old has gone.. it seemed to change overnight. The thin arms and legs are becoming muscular. The soft boy face and jaw replaced by something... harder, firmer, more decisive. Yes, four years goes by quickly, too quickly even... but I'm so grateful for four years. We have a lot to do, a lot to learn in four years and I can't wait for it.
It has been so fun watching you and your friends over the last few weeks of middle school. I'm so glad you have wonderful friends. You are getting ready to enter four of the best years of your life. I know it will not always feel that way, but these next four years are going to be full of fun and amazing memories for you and your friends. I pray that these friendships will continue to strengthen and that you will make friends that will last your whole life.
It is hard for me to even close my eyes and imagine what the next four years will bring... fun, memories, school spirit, driving, dating.... learning, growing, changing. Yes, we both have a lot to do in the next four years. We both have a lot of getting ready to do. But I know we are up to the challenge. I pray that as we learn and grow and change, we do so together and not apart.
Just as I watched you take your first steps away from me... your first steps into school... this fall I will watch you take your first steps toward something else. Something all your own and less of me. Yes, I worry... are we ready? But ready or not, here we go!
Deep down, I know you are. I know you will do amazing things and just as it has been for your entire life, it will be my privilege to watch you learn and grow. I love you so much, Evan. Happy birthday, buddy!
Love,
Mom
Jeremiah 29:11 “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’”
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Thursday, January 10, 2019
8th Grade Night!
It's hard to believe that Evan's days of North Middle School basketball are coming to an end. These will always be precious memories of precious times!
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