Happy Birthday Kelly!

On Friday January 27th my daughter turns…..  Wait.  I better not actually say how old.  Someone may start calculating ages and I think that is best left unsaid.  But she IS celebrating a birthday, and it’s my job as her mother to wish her the most wonderful and happiest day of days!

Kelly has always been bigger than life – with an exuberance for life that has never dulled.  She puts every bit of herself into any project that interests her, and gives her all whenever asked to be a part of anything. 

For her first Christmas she got Baby Sister (the little yellow Fisher-Price doll) and it went everywhere with her.  It was aptly named as that was the only baby sister she ever had.  She loved that doll and I know it’s still tucked away somewhere in her Happy Days (memory) box.

She loved swimming, and in those days didn’t mind sporting a bikini.  Oooo La La!

She has grown from that laughing, happy little girl into a lovely woman; a wife, mother, teacher, daughter … whatever she sets her mind to.  Kelly is a Proverbs 31 woman (look it up!), and I am proud of her life and the love she shows to others, and to her devotion to serve and love God. 

Maybe someday, if I ever decide to actually grow up, I can be just like her!  Love you, my daughter!  Happy Birthday!