This tiny baby girl...
She changed my life...
This girl with thick dark brown hair and brown eyes with the longest lashes I had ever seen, came into my life..... miraculously.
One day I was not a mother and the next day I was.
We loved each other from the moment we laid eyes on each other.
This little powerhouse of a baby, child, girl, teenager and adult.... how could I have ever lived without her?
She rarely cried. Really.
She loved shoes before she could walk. Really.
Determined! I'm pretty sure if you look the word up in the dictionary - her picture is there.
She never crawled. It was just not her style. At 8 months she stood up and started walking and there was no stopping her.... and she is still going!
She informed her pre-school principal that she was wearing the wrong color of lipstick! That's just how she rolled.
Her heart is big, sincere and loyal...
She always loved her friends - even if they didn't love her back. She truly wanted to know everyone. Today, I think she DOES know everyone...
She loves her family and is still mothering her brothers when they let her.
This Girl....
She decided that junior high was boring, so she lobbied to start high school in her 7th grade year. This mama said, "Why not?" She graduated from High School at 16 with honors! Then at 20 graduated from college with a BA.
She never had a curfew. She didn't need it but policed herself. She knew that my ear was ALWAYS ready to listen - and listen I did and do....
This teenage girl would invite all of her gobs of friends over.... we were "the house" and I was "the mom." I should have counted all of the chocolate chip cookies I made for these kids. Some of her friends would come over for cookies, milk and conversation even when she wasn't home! She sure loved them.
Ali has had brushes with death & tragedy...but THIS GIRL is a force to be reckoned with!
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| Singing the National Anthem before a college game |
This precious baby girl has done more than many people at her age. She has traveled and had great jobs that have put in the most interesting places with interesting people.
This girl decided she wanted to live in New York. This mama said, "Why not?" Ali made it happen and is now living one of her dreams!
She decided she wanted to live in French Canada and learn to speak the language. She made it happen!
This Girl has turned into my best friend. She has loved, supported and encouraged me through some very difficult times. She can read me like a book.
This mighty little girl is turning 29 tomorrow and I wish I could read her a story and rock her to sleep just one more time. I would kiss the bridge of her nose and softly stroke her eyebrows until she fell asleep.
I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always - as long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.
I love this girl "infinity and a google."
I think I will go sit in the rocking chair that I bought right before she was born...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY GIRL, Ali Rose!
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| Ali and Peter at her NYC birthday party |
