You are becoming quite the artist, too, my dear. So much so that we started art lessons after school. Watching you grow this creative side makes me so happy. You have such a mature idea of how to place colors together and what will look beautiful. You make such deliberate choices in your art. It is not something you typically see in kids your age. I love your creations so much. I am trying to think of creative ways to display them as I am quickly running out of both refidgerator and wall space!!
My beautiful girl. You are teaching me so much. Sometimes parenting you feels so much more complicated and confusing than I ever expected. I recently began to ubderstand why. In parenting you, I am parenting ME. You are the person in this world most like me. All of your spunk, and sass, and strong will--that came straight from me. We are both creative free-spirits with strong minds and adventurous hearts. We both love to laugh and love to love, and love animals and rainbows and sunsets. For all my flaws, you are all the best of me, sweet girl. When I look at you, my heart swells because I see the little girl I always dreamt of.
Looking at the world through your eyes, I see all the colors of the rainbow, I see flowers, and sparkly blue skies, I see lots of happy faces, and birds singing. Your world is such a beautiful place. You see the goodness. My never ending prayer for you is that you ALWAYS see the world that way. For while I realize that our world is not perfect and there are many things that are heartbreaking and sad--for the most part, the world is good. People are mostly good. It is NEVER a bad thing to believe in goodness and beauty. Soak in all those colors, belly laugh, dance for no reason, sing your heart out, eat cupcakes, and immerse yourself in all of the beauty this world has to give. The way you see the world, Lily, it is the way we should all see it, always.
