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PARENTING
Wherever You Go Daughter, Dance Your Heart Out
The last 18 years are flashing before me on graduation day
“Your life is your story and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your purpose and potential” — Kerry Washington
Today is graduation day for my firstborn daughter.
Little Miss Mia changed our lives at the beginning of May 2004. I don’t follow much astrology, besides reading the occasional fun horoscope, but the definition of a Taurus really fits the description of my Mia.
She came into this world full of life. She was strong-willed from the start. If she was uncomfortable, she cried. That went on for the first 4 months of her life.
Her zest for life, independence, beauty, and wit makes her so interesting and she is a person that you want to be around.
She is fierce.
All of her childhood moments are flashing before me as I get ready to watch her graduate today.
When she first began to walk, she always had to be holding a sock in her hand. Somehow she would always find a sock!
Mia would try any food, doesn’t matter what it was. As a baby and toddler, she ate any vegetable you put in front of her. She…
