Monday, March 20, 2017

Happy 13th Birthday, Katie! The Party edition.

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Sunday, March 12, 2017

Happy 13th Birthday, Katie!!

 

Dear Katie,

I just adore you. You make middle-child life look easy. You are so many things: trustworthy, dependable, and brave. Loving, kind-hearted, compassionate. You are a peace-keeper. An achiever of things. You are brilliant, and good, and funny. I just love your sense of humor. You are actually, genuinely funny.

As you embark into unchartered teenage territory, my prayer for you is that you will remain true to yourself. Being a teenager is hard. Friendships become more complicated, and you have to figure out how to navigate through all kinds of situations again, as you are no longer a child, but not yet an adult. As you change and grow and take on the world, always remember who’s you are, and who you are. You are a daughter of the King. And you are mine. Always be yourself, my girl. I think you’re pretty amazing just the way you are.

 

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Birthday breakfast before church

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Birthday dinner after play practice

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You’re going to Casting Crowns!!

Monday, March 6, 2017

Happy Birthday, Samantha!!

Today my first born daughter turned 21. I remember every single second of that day, and marvel at the fact that this beautiful young woman before me now is that tiny baby I held with so much love and awe such a seemingly short time ago.

Samantha is kind-hearted and compassionate, she is loving and generous to a fault. She makes me laugh, and she challenges me to think deeply about things I had never considered before. I’ve heard it said that daughters grow up to be your best friend, and our relationship is a testament to that truth. What a tremendous joy and blessing it has been to travel this road together. I thank God for you every day.

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Thursday, March 2, 2017

Science Fun!

Today we did an experiment with super worms. We tested their reactions to warm and cold, light and dark, different smells, and made a maze to see if they would consistently choose the same path.

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Things didn’t go exactly how I envisioned them. Katie and Francesca didn’t want anything to do with the worms. I can’t say that I blame them; they were big and wiggly and had legs. Legs. Katie tried to be tough. Although there was a lot of screeching and yelling for Bishnu to come save her when her worms tried to escape, she at least attempted some of the experiment. Francesca, on the other hand, was out from the second we got the worms out of their jar.

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I haven’t laughed so much during a science experiment ever. She jumped up into that window like her pants were on fire, and hardly moved from her spot.

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Add that to the fact that Katie screeched at the top of her lungs every time a worm tried to escape, and we were in hysterics the entire time. Thankfully Bishnu was a little braver than them. She came to Katie’s rescue and grabbed her runaway worms for her. If it weren’t for Bishnu I’m not sure we would have gotten anything accomplished. At all.

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She tested the worms to see if they reacted to the smell of vinegar, if they reacted to warmth and cold, and they built mazes to see if the worms would move through them. These worms were so active, the challenge wasn’t getting them to move, it was getting them to stay in the maze! They kept pushing though the walls and crawling up and over. So funny!

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