My Dear Girls,

I just want you to know...I think about you both all the time. 

How can I be a better mommy to you?

How can I make the world around you "just right"....whatever that may look like.

What's too much? What's not enough?

I want you to stay little forever, but I also can't wait for our relationship to grow deeper and stronger as you grow up and I see you doing new and exciting things. 

How can I convey my love to you? How will you ever grasp what it means to me to be your mommy? I don't think you can. I don't think it's possible to understand until you experience it for yourself. It's so vast, so deep, so unlike something of this world.

There is nothing you could ever do to make me stop loving you. There is no amount of distance, or anger, or mistakes that could ever keep me from loving you just as you are and desiring the absolute best for you. 

I delight in you, just when you are who you are. I love who you are...don't change. Continue to learn what it means to be a better version of who God created you to be already.

Thank you for the gift you've given me by allowing me to have the best, most wonderfully challenging job I could have ever asked for. Thank you for your smiles, your giggles, your milestones and lightbulb moments. Thank you for letting me dry your tears and for letting me be the one to watch you grow and learn.

No matter what happens in life, who you grow up to be, I will always remember you just as you are right now. Perfectly innocent, beautiful little girls...my little girls. 

May your lives truly belong to the Lord as you follow Him and learn of a love even more pure than mine can ever be in Jesus. I'm sorry for the times I will disappoint you, let you down, yell or be less than what you need. But, the God who created you and knows and searches your hearts will NEVER disappoint you. I'm thankful for that, I'm banking on that. 

If you take nothing else away from me, may that be the good news I have for you. As much as I want to love you perfectly, I can't...but I believe in the God who can. He made you with a special purpose, and he made you to carry out that purpose walking in step with himself. I can't wait to watch as you begin to grow into the people who are going to live that out. May I be an encouragement to you and never a stumbling block.

I love you both so much, and I just wanted you to know that. 

XOXO, 

Mommy