It is Cha’s birthday today! She received an e-mail from her hero, Landon Donovan – only the best soccer player to ever come out of the United States! It is a good thing we know people who know people. (Jeff Tackett, World Class Keeper Trainer out of Cal Poly Pomona gets full credit for this one)!
I can’t help but feel sentimental today, because it seems like such a milestone. TWELVE. Eyeliner and razors, and copious amounts of hairspray – that is what I remember about being 12..that, and Duran Duran.
Yet, Chandler is definitely a different person than I was then. She is stronger and less inclined to necessarily do what everyone else is doing. Of course she is like any other girl her age, who does care, even if just a little bit, about what other think of her.
I worry so much that our relationship dynamic is about to undergo a major overhaul, one that is bigger than we have already experienced. So, I just hold on tight, and hope I do all the right things.
She has been so special to me and her Dad, in so many ways. I see the best of us in her, and struggle to reconcile the itty-bitty bad parts that she has inherited, too. But, in the end, she has brought nothing but joy to me, and I am forever proud that she is mine. And I am so excited for everything to come…
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