Kelsi

What I Was Thinking . . . was how much my little girl has grown up. As much as we have tried to treat each of our children the same, I might have failed in this area just a bit, as she IS the baby. She was so easy to raise, though. She was my quiet one; you never really knew she was around too much. Can you believe she only received two spankings her entire life? She has never been strong-willed like my other two and I think that in itself has caused her transition to adulthood to be more difficult for her than my other two, but she is learning every day and I am so proud of her. When they are children you don't want them to be strong-willed because it's so exhausting (I had two of them!), but in adulthood being strong-willed is a good thing ... it gives them determination and it helps them fight for what they want. That's why it's so important not to break your child's will but try to direct that will in a positive way. Kelsi is my tenderhearted child. She cares so much for what people think and she wants so badly to please everyone (which is impossible); but she has pleased her parents and I believe she is pleasing her Saviour. She wants to always be a help to everyone. Through her life she has never one time said, "I want to be a nurse, or a teacher", etc. she has only said I want to serve with my husband in a church someday. You know, that is not a bad thing at all; the hardest and most fulfilling job in the world is to be a wife and mother and she will be completely awesome at it! It's amazing to me how God has given me such completely different children to raise. What an awesome blessing each one of them have been in my life. I love Chris, Staci & Kelsi with every ounce of my being .... that's what I was thinking.