Happy Birthday Chelsea

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…

                                                     "Roly Poly bird's my friend" sung 100 times/day.

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 

a 

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...

first friends...forever friends

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 👋👋

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