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No Pain No Gain

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Dear Ellie:

I love our morning work outs, I actually think you have better squat form than me. You are the best work out partner I could have you cheer me on and push me when I’d rather not spend one more second planking because I want to set the example for you to KEEP GOING even when its tough. There’s a saying “no pain no gain” and its true you have to work for what you want whether it’s your waistline back after becoming a mommy or the perfect job. Whatever it is you want in life love bug you have to put in the work. I pray you never take your blessings as a sign that things will be handed to you. Your parents, grand parents, great grand parents, and so on and so forth all work/worked hard to provide for themselves and their families. So I hope to never hear you say that you want something then see you sitting and waiting for it to happen. You have to dream big then wake up and hit the ground running. And yes there will be times that you will have to wait for your blessing to come but it is in that time that you prepare yourself for what is meant for you. Continue to walk in the direction of your dreams my baby life is about forward movement. Keep working and keep striving you were born to be great, break records, set new standards, and reach beyond the highest expectations but you have to work through the growing pains to gain the blessings entitled to you. I don’t promise that it’ll be easy in fact at times it will be really tough but have confidence in knowing that what God has intended for you is for you alone and no one else’s blessings will take away from yours so focus on your goals and go for it my love bug!! And always remember my baby when it gets rough and you can’t hold that plank one more second I’ll always be here to return the favor and cheer you on.

Love You Always

Mommy

P.S. To the little girl (or the little girl inside you) daydreaming about what she really wants to do go do it NOW. Maybe it won’t happen overnight but its better to spend your time working toward a dream than simply wishing for it. The first step is better than no step at all on any day.

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Sunshine & Thunderstorms

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Dear Ellie:

You played in the sun all day today. In fact every time the sun shines I try to make sure we take advantage partly because I want you to be active and partly because selfishly I want to spend as much time seeing you play as possible because it truly makes my day so much better. Also considering you braved your first brutal, drawn out, harsh, arctic Chicago winter like a seasoned professional you deserve every bit of sun that you can get. Today though as we took a walk with Daddy I realized that it was probably going to storm just as the weather man predicted and I mentioned that I needed to get a new umbrella because my old one broke and Daddy turned and said to me “well the rain is going to come”. A simple enough response and the kind you probably know by now your Daddy always gives. But with this simple response it dawned on me that we really do have to enjoy the sunshine and I mean realllly enjoy it not do the things we love but still have our worries and troubles in the back of our minds. I truly hope you live in the moment. Even when you get to your teen years and have that pimple that just won’t go away or when you enter “the real world” and every time you check the mail there’s a bill. No matter what phase of life you are in when you read this live in your moment and define your moment for what you want it to be not by what is thrown at you. Because my baby the storm will come and it will thunder, lighting, hail and more but just as sure as it will come the storm will go and you’ll realize a few rain drops even a couple pieces of hail did not destroy you. And when your storm comes I hope that you didn’t spend your moment in the sun before the storm worrying about how loud the thunder would be or how hard it would pour. You can’t control the weather and you can’t stop hard times from coming but you can enjoy every good moment so much so that the storm doesn’t seem so bad. And tonight the storm did in fact come just like Daddy said but even when I cringed as the thunder rumbled and the rain fell because I didn’t want it to wake you, you stayed peaceful. So I pray that during your storms you find peace just like you had tonight even long after Mommy is no longer there (or wanted) to rock you to sleep. There will be times that you’ll want to pray for the storm to end or for a way out but some storms you just have to weather and honestly my baby its not as bad as it seems that I can promise you. In fact when you can look back and realize that you now know who’s truly in your corner because they were the ones holding up your umbrella or even your own strength to keep pressing when you can only see two inches in front of you in the rain that in itself will be worth it. Have faith that each moment has its purpose the good, bad and ugly. You don’t have to know the big picture just HAVE FAITH. And my baby believe me even when you think you’ve figured out the big picture little do you know there are a million more pieces to the puzzle. So again I say just enjoy your sunshine don’t worry yourself about the storms because they are sure to come and they are sure to go. 

Love Always,

Mommy

P.S. To the little girl standing in the rain with no shelter in sight have faith that no storm last forever and the storm doesn’t mean that your journey ends sometimes its a sign to take another route or sometimes it just an opportunity to dance. And remember you are not alone every one experiences rain it never falls on just one person. So however you choose to face your storm know that you can make back to your sunshine.