twelve is a sheaf of in-betweenness, skirting the fence between childhood and the teenage years, becoming.
i think about who you are today. voluble. happy. an edacious reader, gamer, dodgeball enthusiast. eager, but with a heart that bruises easily. principled.
i hope you will always look out for your brothers and sister. i hope you will stoke your tendency to be merciful, to champion the oppressed, to find pleasure in the littlest things. i hope you want God more than air.
it's a tenuous hold i have on you, as a mother of a nearly-teen. i want you to be young enough still to take my best habits, old enough to sift through what i hand you and cast aside the dross.
i hope you are an agent of God's healing and justice. and i hope he holds you so tight.
happy birthday, b. you are so precious to me.
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Makes me teary...
Anna Grace just turned 12 too :) i think i say that every year, don't I??? Happy Birthday to your baby .... your words are, as always, beautiful!
lock him up Nic and don't let him go ;) I'm imaging your phone ringing off the hook in the next year or two (or maybe it already does?) I love you as a mother. Your words are an inspiration!!
Jenn
Nic,
Happy birthday to your sweet boy.
So beautiful, Nic...
Hope it was a special day for such a special kid...
Looks just like his mama. Beautiful. My son turned 12 this month, too. It is happy and sad all at once, isn't it?
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