This year,
Chelsea's birthday is extra sweet.
It's her first Birthday
as a
mother of 3.
Chelsea and Austin have been blessed with
3 darlings
who promise to make her day
even more special
and a tad more chaotic.
Ansley, Presley and Daisy don’t know it yet,
but they are
learning from a pro...
learning about
life, love, laughter…
taking pictures :)
and making
life events and birthdays
extra special
and
memorable.
half year = half cake
Chelsea puts her heart and soul into it all...
because
that's who she is through and through...
true-blue,
tried and true.
Anywhooo….
I’m remembering Chelsea as a newborn…
our first,
born in Jacksonville, FL
and me as a newbie mom,
trying to entertain my 4 month old between sleeps…
feeding, singing, swinging, singing, swinging, feeding...
thinking how am I gonna entertain her
for the rest of the day?
But then in
a blink of an eye,
a bat of an eyelash,
or
a nanosecond of time….
38 years go by
and we have
3 GREAT kids
and
4 GRAND kids.
So much time has passed
after all these years,
I hardly recognize myself
back then.
Sometimes I like picturing our family back in our house in Avon, CT;
remembering Chelsea tucked in her blue sponge painted bedroom,
Colin in a bedroom plastered in music posters and sports banners and
Bri in her sunny yellow room...
that feeling of content that my 3 lil chicks were under my roof...
safe and protected
before they grew up and
made their own way into the world.
I can still see Chelsea…
every morning before school,
running to her window of her 2nd floor bedroom
waving to her Dad...👋👋
and her Dad waving back through his sunroof 👋 👋
as he drove by the front of the house on his way to work.
And if you know Chelsea,
when it becomes her thing…
it’s her thing.
However,
Chelsea is still a young mom
with oodles of time with her own
3 chicks under her roof
to mold,
behold,
handhold...
and to love
millionfold.
Happy Birthday
to our first born…
the first
to teach us
about parenthood...
the first
to teach
her siblings
about fun with
life long chums...
and
the first
to teach us how
BIG
and
mushy
our hearts could become.
Happy Birthday Chelsea,
We send our love
today
and
every day 👋👋
👋👋 👋👋
