HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANITA DAWN! Hope you're having a wonderful 30th. This time 30 years ago you were just over 1 hour old - and I was deliriously happy! Do you realize how HUGE I got carrying you? I looked ridicuous and couldn't even wear the size 9 shoes I had bought. But . . . I forgave you for all that the moment I saw you.
Little did I know that you were destined to be a nurse. It should have been a dead giveaway when I walked in the living room and there you sat with bandaids all over your ears. Said your ears were hurting. You've been making "hurts" feel better ever since.
Thank you for making it easy on me being a mom. You were always so compliant and gentle of spirit. Always wiser than your years - to which I contribute to your choice of mentors . . . even as a child you were so comfortable with adults and found their company interesting.
You've grown into a very wonderful young lady. Your talent for writing is the latest on the list of your talents - of which are many. Thank you taking the "mothering" role so serious. You're a great mother and Addison is blessed to have you. You and Jeremy were destined to be together. You make a wonderful couple. I'm so proud that both of you have such a heart for the things of God. You both are so willing to work for him without any praise or desire for the glory. You don't find many like that.
Again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, sweetheart. May God bless you with a wonderful year. We, as a family, are proud to call you ours.
Love,
Dad and Mom
2 comments:
Wow. Thank you so much for the kind words. I'm humbled. I attribute all of my success back to such wonderful parents!!
I laugh AND cry alot reading this blog or blahk or blah (as Mother says EVERY time she says it.) Today is no exception.
Your Mother has told the truth 'bout you. No exaggerations needed. That's a huge compliment. I love you, Anita.
Aunt Linda
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