Happy Birthday!

Seventeen years ago I was given the most amazing gift imaginable. This gift completely changed my life, turning it upside and rearranging everything I thought about everything. Seventeen years ago I became a mother for the very first time. Seventeen years filled with joy, fear, frustration, celebration, laughter, tears, screams, smiles, pride, anger, adoration, giggles, quizzacles, learning, adulation, love. The tiny little baby that God entrusted me to guide through this world is now a beautiful, intelligent, witty, talented, amazing young woman. I cannot even remember the world without her in it.