A Note For My Kirynie

Kirynie, this is a post from your dad to you.

Honey, you have just finished the First Grade, and are on your summer holiday now.  First of all, congratulations!  Not just for finishing your year at school, but for doing so well at it!  You got high marks all around!  You are especially talented in your reading and comprehension.  Our goals for this summer are to get you trained up in farm management, learning to feed the animals and to care for them properly.  You take good care of them, and they will take good care of you.  We have eight egg laying chickens, five leghorns intended for meat, one cow for meat for next year, and a horse, as well as five llamas!  We hope to get more animals this summer too.  There is work to do on where we house the animals.  Fences and gates all need care.  You are going to be learning all about all of this, and much, much more!  I want you to be confident in all of these areas, so that as you grow older, you will fearlessly face whatever challenges life throws at you.  You may decide to live in a house in the city, and when some wild animal runs through the neighborhood, I want you to be the one who knows what to do, rather than one of the many who might run senselessly scared.  I have learned one thing early and kept it all my life.  No matter how strong your body ever is, if you have power in your mind, you can overpower just about any challenge. 

You are an amazing little girl!  You are sweet, and you are pretty good at doing what you are told.  If you keep that up, you will be open to learning lots of new things from us, because we don’t tend to tell you what to do just because.  You can learn from everything!  I am so proud of you honey!  I am so happy and feel so lucky and honored to be your daddy.  Thank you for who you are!  Thank you for being the wonderful person you chose every day to be.  Thank you for sneaking past me in the morning sometimes, and giving me a kiss before you go downstairs.  I notice.  Giving the gift of love is one of the most generous things you can do in life.  It is a gift I cherish deeply from you! 

Yours with unyielding love,

Daddy, Kelsey