Friday, June 02, 2017

An Adult

Today is the day that I gave birth to my second child. I remember it well, and so the fact that she is now 18 years old today makes me wonder how that is even possible because it feels like I just brought her home from the hospital. Well, that isn't true, but it doesn't feel like that many years have passed since that day. Yet, they have and today my youngest is now an adult.

While I see her every day, in my mind she still looks like this:


and this:
and this:

and this:


Sigh. Happy Birthday to our once fingers/pacifier/thumb sucking, witty, smart, adventurous, tell-it-like-it-is, beautiful red head daughter. You'll always be the baby. That's just the way it is.



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