My baby girl turned 22 today.  It’s really not possible, I swear.  Just yesterday she was three and a half and running around the house naked with her sisters and the three of them falling asleep giggling after a day of dancing and chasing and pretending.  How is it that she now stands before me, a beautiful grown woman, ready to go out into the world and make her own mark on it?  It just baffles me…

We had a big family dinner tonight and invited significant others and their parents.  It was a loud, laughter filled night.  A night when my heart sang a thankful song.  I love hearing my family and those we love enjoying each other’s company and laughing those big, ugly, no holds barred, belly laughs.  The kind that come from the deepest, safest, most intimate part of the heart.  The ones that take you to the brink of crying they are so good. Mmmmmmm, yeah.  Those kind.

And as stood at the sink rinsing dishes, I listened to the chatter and the conversation and the laughter going on and I smyled.  So very thankful.  Happy Birthday, Britt. I love you more than words can say.  You are more amazing to me every day.  You have become an incredible woman, but you will always be my precious, round faced, deep voiced baby girl.  Love, love, love you!!!!