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6 Year Old Haley

Today, my sweet little girl turned 6.

Our lives have been chaos lately, so it was very important to me that she felt special today. I attended her FABULOUS school play, we kidnapped her at lunch to spend some birthday money and eat Jose Peppers--after school--was swim lessons, pizza and cake at grandma and grandpas.

It was perfect. This evening, she was singing in the shower and cuddled up to bed with a mermaid tail blanket.

Like most yearly events, I can't help but spend some time in reflection. First, I want to encourage moms everywhere. Parenting is hard. From day 1 with Haley, I felt like I was always struggling to "figure it out". How to not mess her up.

As I stand here after 6 years, I still haven't figured it out. But she has turned out to be a wonderful little girl in spite of it all.

The 3's and 4's are tough. But something magical happens in kindergarten. ---and I have enjoyed the heck out of it (even though I missed her like crazy and spent the first month of kindergarten irrationally depressed---hello baby number three).

Haley at 5. It has been a solid year. Haley at 6 brings new adventures. New school next year, ANOTHER baby brother, a growing church community, and so much more. My prayer will be that I will guide Haley well in life. God entrusted me with her so I pray that my actions will glorify Him and His will in my child's life be done.

Haley, if you read this someday. I love you kid. And I am sorry for broadcasting your entire childhood on social media------but all the other moms were doing it too.




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