Happy Birthday
to my second born
Happy Birthday
to the infant who put herself on a 3-hour feeding/sleeping schedule
Happy Birthday
to the nine-month-old who got chicken pox
Happy Birthday
to the poor little toddler with food-allergy-induced-eczema who couldn’t sleep for more than twenty minutes at a time
Happy Birthday
to the 17-month-old who used words like “actually” and who climbed to the top of the great big slide at the beach park all by herself
Happy Birthday
to the two-year-old who was obsessed with pockets and who would put herself in time out if she wanted to throw a fit
Happy Birthday
to the four-year-old reader and math wiz who yelled out the answers to her big sisters' problems
Happy Birthday
to the little girl who couldn’t stop after making herself cry for a game of pretend with her sisters
Happy Birthday
to the child who just could not come home from a 15-minute visit to McDonald’s or the park or the library without a phone number or an e-mail address of a new best friend
Happy Birthday
to the adolescent I watched become a leader among her peers
Happy Birthday
to the hard-working teenager who paid her own way on several mission trips and to the generous teen who paid the way of others
Happy Birthday
to a young woman with hopes and goals and plans to travel to Greece, to do more mission work, to love the Lord with all her heart, mind, soul, and strength, to live her life exuberantly
Happy Birthday, Abi
May all your dreams come true!
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