He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

I wish I could have written you monthly letters that you could read when you get older. I wish I could have taken more photos. I wish I would have finished the baby books. I wish time moved more slowly.

I wish a hundred wishes every night.

Posted by Katelyn in Uncategorized. 3 comments

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{1} Momfish:

There aren’t very many pictures of me as a baby at all (a handful maybe?) because I was the 2nd child. Though of course I wish I could see more pictures, the handful I do have, I cherish. Its’ not like having 1,000′s of pictures that I just skim through and throw to the side. I frame them, I keep them safe, and I know how important they are.

And while doing monthly letters and all that stuff is certainly nice, I get just as teary-eyed and feel just as happy listening to my dad simply tell me stories about when I was a baby… how I’d eat cereal in my bottle and curl up on his chest. My parents may not have every memory written down, but the most important ones are ingrained in them, and they have shared them so many times that they’ve become love letters I can easily retell to my own babies.

One of the biggest indicators that you’ve loved these girls and sacrificed so much for them and been busy & tired & extremely attentive to them is the fact that you’ve barely had time to take a pause to do these little “extras”.

You’ll have plenty of stories to share with them at bedtime that will make them laugh and fall asleep knowing how loved and cherished they were and are, despite the difficulties and doubt. And they’ll love knowing how hard of a worker you are and how gorgeous you dressed and how motivated you were to live life really, really fully.

<3 You're a great mom. And a great worker. And a great artist. And a great person. It has been so wonderful following your journey and watching the struggles and the successes.


Aug 4, 2011
1:14 pm

{2} emmysuh:

Not sure I could say it any better than Kalen did. You are a great mom!


Aug 4, 2011
4:06 pm

{3} krista:

what kalen said!

i don’t remember my mom as someone who had millions of pictures of us, either, and my sister and i both have baby books that she only filled out the first couple months of our lives…what i remember (and love) best about my mom is how she would get up earlier than everyone else in the morning and make sure we had breakfast and were dressed and she would walked out of the door looking like a million bucks, the most beautiful woman i have EVER seen to date….to go to work and work her ASS off, got two masters degrees, all to make life better for us. i wouldn’t trade that for anything. you remind me a lot of her, and it’s awesome. <3


Aug 8, 2011
6:14 pm

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