Your children are not your children.
I can't believe that my baby is turning 16 years old today. It is unfathonable that so many years have passed since they put her into my arms for the first time and I fell in love at first sight, at first touch, at first smell. I knew that she would be my last and perhaps that's why her growing up has been so bittersweet, why the milestones touch me so deeply. She is an amazing young woman now, and to say that I am proud of her is an understatement. She has brought so much joy to my life, I am incredibly blessed and ever-so-grateful to have lived these past 16 years with such an amazing creature.
Happy Sweet Sixteen, Bambi. I love you.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, and yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit,
I can't believe that my baby is turning 16 years old today. It is unfathonable that so many years have passed since they put her into my arms for the first time and I fell in love at first sight, at first touch, at first smell. I knew that she would be my last and perhaps that's why her growing up has been so bittersweet, why the milestones touch me so deeply. She is an amazing young woman now, and to say that I am proud of her is an understatement. She has brought so much joy to my life, I am incredibly blessed and ever-so-grateful to have lived these past 16 years with such an amazing creature.
Happy Sweet Sixteen, Bambi. I love you.
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This day, June 10, 1776 in History
Event:
Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence
Happy Birthday
Steve
Happy birthday to Bambi! I hope you all have a wonderful day celebrating together. The years really do fly by swiftly, though it is sometimes hard to convince a child to be childlike! I always tell mine, "Slow down! Once you're a grown up, you're a grown up for the rest of your life!" lol! She's a real cutie! :)
Thank you so much for the warm birthday wishes! ;)
Happy Birthday!! Sounds like you had a great celebration.
Grace, it really was a nice day. Thank you for the warm wishes!
Sweet 16 and never been kissed, my dad used to say...don't know where that came from.
Hope it was memorable! Oh, to be 16!
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