Tuesday’s Tribute…Talk About Tuesday…

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Yet Another Jay and Deb Production.

This weeks Tuesday’s Tribute  AND Talk About Tuesday go out to my darling 12 year old daughter.  I am going to post her picture and then a letter I wrote to her on her 12th birthday.

Pumpkin_seed  lost her brother in a car-accident in 2004 ( he was sitting right next to her in the car), but she doesn’t let that stop her from living her life and moving on.  She is a fighter and she is strong!!  Pumpkin_seed still misses her “big” brother but refuses to “die” with him.  I don’t mean that in a crude way, I just mean she lives her life to the fullest everyday and remembers the good times she had with him.  She is excited to know that one day,  she will see him again in heaven and looks forward to it.  She is an amazing young lady, that pumpkin_seed!!!  I love her with all my heart and I don’t know what I would do without her!!

To my darling 12 year old. I fell in love with you when I was three months pregnant with you. I hadn’t even laid eyes on you yet. Didn’t even know for sure if you were a girl or a boy. But I had a feeling you were a girl. MY girl. I thought of all the things we would do together. How I would braid your hair and teach you how to sit, talk, and act like a lady. I thought about dressing you up in ribbons and ruffles, all in pink, how we would have tea parties with your dolls and stuffed animals. How someday you would go to school and how proud I would be, and I was and still am.

I thought about how you would eventually like boys and what I would tell you when you did. Well, things have changed a lot since then and you do like boys!! Well, just one that I know of. I know you smile whenever you say his name and I know are excited to think that he might like you, too. You have the rest of your life to enjoy these things, please don’t be in a hurry to grow up. You only get to be a child once and only for a short time. I know it seems like it takes for ever to be a grown up and there are rules and chores and school and it seems like a lot, but you wait, one day you will wish for the days when you were a kid!! Just remember, my sweet girl, if he’s right for you it will happen in God’s time.

Remember that you can always talk to me about anything no matter what!! I will always be your biggest fan and nothing you could say or do will ever change that. Please remember that Daddy and I make rules to keep you safe from harm and to keep you happy in the long run.

Remember your purity (mind, body and soul) should be held close and dear to you. Besides your salvation it is your most treasured “possession” at this point in your life. Keep It!! Now , go out there with God’s grace and show the world what you’re made of!! I love you today, tomorrow, and always!!! Happy Birthday sweety, Hugs and Prayers… Love Mommy…