Letters I wish I had written...

Seeing your children become parents with children of their own is awesome...grandchildren are wonderful. But sometimes I get a little melancholy and wish I could do it over...do it better...do it more! I look at my grown children and know that by the grace of God they turned out to be wonderful, responsible adults. And now they have families of their own. I am so proud of my children as parents. I am proud of the time my son spends with his pre-schoolers after a long day at work. He never fails to interact with both of his children everyday. My heart swells as I hear him reading to his family, playing a game, or saying prayers at bedtime. My daughter is an awesome mother! She is loving motherhood and it shows in everything she does! She has chosen to be a stay at home mom and I am grateful that she could make that choice! I am amazed at her patience, her knowledge and her skills as she raises her baby daughter. She makes it look so easy! Yes, they do have spouses, wonderful spouses, but that is for another blog. Looking back there are a multitude of things I would do differently, I would do better. But who doesn't say that?? There is one thing I wish I had done for both of them. I wish I had written them a birthday letter every year.. A letter to recap their past year, a letter to remind them why they are so special and how much they are loved. A friend of mine did that for his daughter and he said he was going to give them to her on her 21st birthday. I don't know if he did or not...but I really liked the thought of that! I have the pictures..I have lots of pictures..but to have a written account of each year.. how awesome would that have been?? Because each year is so special, so different, so awesome....and then they are grown...