Friday, March 23, 2012

Sweet 17

Seventeen years ago today, Erin Gabrielle entered the world and changed us from Greg and Sherri into Dad and Mom.  Love, unlike any other we'd ever felt was born in that incredible moment. She is our first and she wears that badge well. We've made all our first mistakes with her. We continue to wade through uncharted territory with each stage of development first with her. She is bright, witty, beautiful, sarcastic and honest. We are proud to be her parents. She has recently decided that growing up isn't all it's cracked up to be so moving forward, she'd like to have reverse birthdays. She is facing college choices, career plans and life goals with the realization that she has always been a little adult and perhaps wasted being a kid the first time around! Welcome to the mind of Erin! Her future holds two current plans.....

Plan A....graduate high school and travel the world, living with kind strangers willing to take in a homeless girl and perhaps fall in love with some foreign speaking, very attractive man so she will finally learn a new language (four years of Spanish didn't actually teach her to speak it!)

Plan B.....graduate high school with enough advanced placement courses to enroll as a sophomore at the University of Louisville while working part time at UPS so her college is paid for, start her teaching career as she continues her education with an emphasis on special education or Montessori certification, get married to someone who will dote upon her and perhaps adopt a few kids so she never has to have a blood test

Happy birthday Erin. We love you.

1 comment:

A Mom to Two Lil' Ones said...

Happy Birthday Erin!! Plan A, Plan B or Plan wherever life takes you - I pray you are blessed and happy always.