The Wednesday Whistle: Something New
This week I will be starting something new for the blog called the Wednesday Whistle. This will be a consistent posting on a weekly basis {on Wednesdays…for no other reason than I really like the way the words Wednesday and Whistle sound together…word dork…I know}. This “whistle” will be a letter to my girls…about them, about our life, about silly, happy, funny, maddening, meaningless, sad, wonderful things. My goal is to create a book of each of the 52 postings per year for both of them. Sometimes they will be short…sometimes long….sometimes personal…sometimes not. They will ALWAYS include a daily mantra. I am obsessed with those things. Oh…and a picture.
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dear Mikki and Katie…
it’s Mom. i thought it would be neat {corny} to write you a weekly letter. now, at your young and impressionable ages, you are going to like it. in a few years, when you are STILL young and impressionable but will insist that you are not, you will hate it. a few years after that when you are still younger than me…maybe have children of your own and realize your mother knows and was right about everything {because i will be}, you will like it again.
the letter is going to start off with my one dream for you both: become yourself. i think this is hard for girls…we are constantly imitating everything {sigh….hannah montanna, or other girls, or {gasp} our moms}. even grown women do this. while growing up, you will probably try on lots of different versions of yourself, and that is okay. in the end though, be your own unique girl.
{oh, and go to college}
all my love ladies….Mommy.
P.S.
Daily Mantra: “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ” {e.e.cummings}
by amanda.b.
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