20. In family devotions asking her to come up with a Scripture that
reminded her of her brother and she choose John 10:20 "He hath a demon
and is mad. Why listen to him?"
19. The time she spent her hard earned money to buy me a singing card for Mother's Day and presented me with a lovely card of Merle Haggard singing, "Mama Tried."
18. The time she consented to lead a song during worship and blew us all away with that great voice of hers.
17. When she was 4 and hid up in the tree for about an hour and watched us while we searched the entire neighborhood for her.
16. When we started foster care and discovered that she is an absolute natural with a baby in her arms and a toddler on her hip.
15. When I realized that she is indispensable for throwing a dinner party because she has a great eye for details and order and instinctively knows where to put all the utensils and dishes for a beautiful table.
14. The music that she fills the house with on the piano and the guitar...even though she likes to do it in the basement where she thinks no one is listening...I still turn things off upstairs just so I can hear her.
13. The way she loves to sneak up on people and take pictures of them while they are sleeping.
12. The braces she got in 8th grade (the exact same day that she had a speaking part in the school program) and how concerned she was that she would still have them in college....she got them off just before HS graduation....and we had a supper that night of popcorn, nachos, gum, and Doritos.
11. How she loves to decorate the Christmas tree JUST RIGHT.
10. How excited she was to purchase her first car that she paid for in cash with her own money that she had worked hard to earn.
9. The way she very bravely tackled her fear of strangers and different places and spent a summer living in a basement on the south-side of Chicago doing outreaches in Ford Heights and Chicago Heights...and learning to love another culture.
8. How she convinced me that I needed to begin painting my toenails at age 43 and then painted them for me - taking great care to choose a color that didn't make me look too "worldly."
7. How she would not hit the buzzer in JBQ even though she knew every one of the answers and when, during a time out, I promised her ice cream if she would answer a question she jumped in and answered the very next question....and then never hit the buzzer again.
6. The time she took the initiative to join the high school med program at University of Nebraska Med Center and learned about all the different opportunities available to her and came home very proud of the banana that she had expertly sutured.
5. Her incredible ability to be extremely nervous about doing something and then stand up and pull it off without even breaking a sweat.
4. Her personal drive to enroll in and fund her training as a certified nurses assistant while she was still in high school and the incredible value that she brings to her job at Fox Run Assisted Living Center....and the conscientious way she does her job and loves on her residents.
3. How she loved Spam and prunes as a kid.
2. The mother/daughter trip we took to Italy to fulfill a dream of climbing Mt. Vesuvius and the bravery that she showed in staying there after I went home in order to help out some kids that she really cares out.
1. The day she was born...and they placed a beautiful blond hair blue-eyes baby in my arms after a fairly easy labor...and I knew that I was just beginning the adventure of being a mother with a daughter...who is so very different and yet so very much like me.
The memories are just beginning, my precious daughter...never stop dreaming and, in God's time and God's plan, never stop running after those dreams.
You is kind. You is smart. You is important.
19. The time she spent her hard earned money to buy me a singing card for Mother's Day and presented me with a lovely card of Merle Haggard singing, "Mama Tried."
18. The time she consented to lead a song during worship and blew us all away with that great voice of hers.
17. When she was 4 and hid up in the tree for about an hour and watched us while we searched the entire neighborhood for her.
16. When we started foster care and discovered that she is an absolute natural with a baby in her arms and a toddler on her hip.
15. When I realized that she is indispensable for throwing a dinner party because she has a great eye for details and order and instinctively knows where to put all the utensils and dishes for a beautiful table.
14. The music that she fills the house with on the piano and the guitar...even though she likes to do it in the basement where she thinks no one is listening...I still turn things off upstairs just so I can hear her.
13. The way she loves to sneak up on people and take pictures of them while they are sleeping.
12. The braces she got in 8th grade (the exact same day that she had a speaking part in the school program) and how concerned she was that she would still have them in college....she got them off just before HS graduation....and we had a supper that night of popcorn, nachos, gum, and Doritos.
11. How she loves to decorate the Christmas tree JUST RIGHT.
10. How excited she was to purchase her first car that she paid for in cash with her own money that she had worked hard to earn.
9. The way she very bravely tackled her fear of strangers and different places and spent a summer living in a basement on the south-side of Chicago doing outreaches in Ford Heights and Chicago Heights...and learning to love another culture.
8. How she convinced me that I needed to begin painting my toenails at age 43 and then painted them for me - taking great care to choose a color that didn't make me look too "worldly."
7. How she would not hit the buzzer in JBQ even though she knew every one of the answers and when, during a time out, I promised her ice cream if she would answer a question she jumped in and answered the very next question....and then never hit the buzzer again.
6. The time she took the initiative to join the high school med program at University of Nebraska Med Center and learned about all the different opportunities available to her and came home very proud of the banana that she had expertly sutured.
5. Her incredible ability to be extremely nervous about doing something and then stand up and pull it off without even breaking a sweat.
4. Her personal drive to enroll in and fund her training as a certified nurses assistant while she was still in high school and the incredible value that she brings to her job at Fox Run Assisted Living Center....and the conscientious way she does her job and loves on her residents.
3. How she loved Spam and prunes as a kid.
2. The mother/daughter trip we took to Italy to fulfill a dream of climbing Mt. Vesuvius and the bravery that she showed in staying there after I went home in order to help out some kids that she really cares out.
1. The day she was born...and they placed a beautiful blond hair blue-eyes baby in my arms after a fairly easy labor...and I knew that I was just beginning the adventure of being a mother with a daughter...who is so very different and yet so very much like me.
The memories are just beginning, my precious daughter...never stop dreaming and, in God's time and God's plan, never stop running after those dreams.
You is kind. You is smart. You is important.
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