Daughters

Today I'd like to introduce you all to my lovely daughter.

She is amazing, beautiful and a combination of both her father and mother.

I look at her life and see alot of me in her. I look at her...and see her dad. She resembles Harold when you look at her.

Andrea is 27 years old. I cannot believe my firstborn is this old. Where did the years go... I remember her as a little girl and she was very quiet and thoughful. Very strong willed and at an early age, like so many little girls, showed her desire to be a Mom.

She is a high school teacher by trade although now retired to be a stay at home Mom! I'm so proud of her and so happy that she chose to do this no matter the cost.

She knew at age 9 who her husband would be (God had told her and she pointed him out to me at church one Sunday morning) and she told me this....He is the one she married.

She loves the Lord and seeks HIM everyday. She is gifted in so many ways, she can actually sew.....I've seen her work and she is awesome! She just picked this up and is already a pro. She certainly doesn't get this from me. Til this day I won't live down the fact that when I was pregnant with her I made the attempt to sew a couple of Care Bears. You know, the kind that you just had to cut out on the dotted line and then turn inside out to sew the stitching and then leave a little hole after you turn it right side out and fill with cotton or feather like stuffing to make a pillow? (Whew! that was a mouthful!) I made a blue one and a pink one. To this day my kiddos make fun of me because they were awful. All lumpy and the stitching was all crooked.

She has a beautiful voice and I think she should sing more often in church! She doesn't know it yet but God willing I want to have a 30th anniversary party next year and she will be singing!

Andrea is most importantly a great wife and mother. I watch her with her babies and she cares for them with such tenderness and love. I hope this comes from me...I hope she can somehow remember how deeply I cared for both of them, I mean actually have some memories that she can go to when she was a little tot. Regrets...sure... we mom's always have regrets because we lived the moment not always with the future in mind. But huge regrets?...thank God I don't. My kids were and still mean the world to me. There is nothing or no one beside their father that I love most in this life!

Mothers and Daughters have a special bond. The bond is motherhood! She is strong and level headed...like me!

My baby girl grew up to be an awesome Woman of Faith in Christ! She continues to transcend me in so many areas....that makes me so happy! I love her so!

next....Sons!