My youngest...my baby...turned sixteen yesterday!!
Wow...where did that time go? How can she be learning to walk one day, and be sixteen the next? How does that work? I swear I just don't get it.
A tradition was started in our family when my older daughter turned 16. I wrote a poem for her explaing how much she is loved by her Dad, and then I had it professionally printed out on pretty paper and framed.
I decided to do that for Jessica on her 16th as well.
The poem is as follows.......
Jessica’s Song
Sing a song of Jessica
Delightful to my soul
Her smiling face enraptures
How she makes my being whole
Without her I am but a man
A rudderless ship adrift
A perfect God bestowed on me
The perfect, sweetest gift
Such miracles only made above
This truth inside my heart I hold
The many years of memories
More precious than the finest gold
In my eyes there is none equal
Entranced by all I hear and see
A finer blessing never assigned
To such a mortal man as me
Sing a song of Jessica
On wings the melody ever soars
Brings peace and solace to my heart
As waves that light upon the shore
Photo by Alicia Tandeski
Happy Birthday sweet sixteen! I love you!