A few weeks gone by

My love I see that it has been two weeks since my last post. I last posted while I was in Nice. Since that time we have been together every day. It just never makes sense to me to take time away from you to write to you. I am sorry about that and sorry for missing a week.

It's June already. That time is finally here. Our younger daughter is about to graduate from high school. I just spent considerable time reading letters about Paige and how people thought about her and it got me to thinking what I would write about our little girl.

It struck me during the thought that I would write so many things about her that I have written about you over the years. How as amazing that people think of her, they likely think of you. She just has all of those "accomplishments" at a young age to display. Who knows what kind you may have had if you were raised by you? She has that advantage no matter what the comparison.

You must be so proud and yet so humbled at the same time. How can you not look at her or listen to her without it being a constant reminder of who you are? Same smile, same sense of humor, same "hidden" compassion for everything, same ability to defeat anything in your paths. She may never realize how many gifts you gave her over the years that were able to be unwrapped or shipped to her.

I am certain it is why she and I butt heads so often. I see so much of you in her and you love me so much, so why do she and I have such a different relationship? It must be some kind of chemical thing. However, I know that someday she will find her true love and he will feel the same way you make me feel. He will officially be the "second" luckiest man in the world.

So as we praise he for all she has accomplished, don't let it past you that she has done what she has done because she had so much of you inside her and the benefit of having you at her side to escape every adversity that was in front of you at the same age. While she is her own person in every way, she still represents so much of what you would have accomplished given the same opportunity.

You're the world to me. I love you more than anything in the world.