She was seven pounds, fourteen ounces when she was born. She was a beautiful baby, content and cheerful most of the time. When Kevin was born, Kait took immediate ownership of him and nurtured him with patience and kindness, always including her toddling brother in her adventures.
When Kait was five she was determined to have her own cable television show where she would read to all the children “in the world”. We would practice together with one of those video cameras which held a full size VHS cassette tape. For hours I would record her reading stacks of books while Kevin, twenty six months younger, would jump up and down in the background “ruining her perfect take” of “The Cat in the Hat”. Despite her frustration she never was mean to him.
During my multiple pregnancies, some of which I spent on complete bedrest, Kait would take over the laundry or bring me meals of sandwiches and ice cold milk “for the new baby” growing inside me. The love for her family was not just in words, but actions.
Kait is a self motivated learner. If she wasn’t out brushing her horse, she had her nose stuck in a book. When I bought a year’s worth of curriculum, she had it completed in four or five months. I just couldn’t keep up with the child.
Then she started public school and I had no doubt she would make fast friends with the other students. I only worried that she would find children equally mature as she was to spend time with. Her teachers loved her. Parent teacher conferences were always a joy.
Kait got her license last year and then her first job working as a receptionist in a hair salon. Everyone there loved her, too. Now she’s employed at a bank closer to home and enjoying her last year of high school.
I conceived Kait after praying for God to bless me with a child. I had no idea just how blessed I would be. We just received her senior pictures today and I’m overwhelmed with the emotion of knowing that she will soon be an adult. I look at her now and I know that I’ve done a good job raising her. She is my proudest accomplishment. Now I pray that God will bless me with the ability to let go and stand back as she implements what she’s been taught in the time spent with us.
I’m also going to buy stock in Kleenex tissue.
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