I am ready as I can be

Dearest Sydney:

I promise you I am tearing up as I write this. When your first born graduates from kindergarten you will understand. Two days ago we attended your "kindergarten celebration". The theme was all about how you and your friends are growing up, you are learning and full of potential. You see, I've known this for sometime, but it's very eye opening to see 100 of you and your friends put on an entire hour long program about it. There are two songs that you sang that stick out in my mind. The first one is called "I Am A Promise". Some of the lyrics are:

"I am a promise, I am a possibility, I am a promise with a capital P, I am a great big ball of potentiality. And, I am learning to hear God's voice and I am trying to make the right choice, I am a promise to be anything God wants me to be."

That sums up my prayer for you Sydney - to be a promise to hear God's word and do your best. You truly are a blessing in our lives as are your brother and sister and I am so proud to be your mommy. Here is my promise to you - to let you fly, to allow you to find your potential and be who God wants you to be.

The other song was called "I Am Ready" - I envision standing at your high school graduation 12 years from now and reliving the lyrics to this song which go like this:

"The future's looking good to me, I am ready to go, ready as I can be. The future's looking good to me, I am ready to go, ready as I can be......." Right now you and 100 other kindergartners were all trying to convince your mommies and daddies that you were ready to go.....to first grade. We're right there with you - of course, you are ready to go to first grade, you are prepared, you've learned to read and write - first grade here we come!! Twelve years from now I think I'm going to need more than a song to convince me that you are ready to leave for college - but the good news is I have 12 years to prepare for that.....and I'm going to need every.last.second.

The future is, indeed, looking good to me too!