seventeen

your birthday is a special time:

i don't remember exactly what my thoughts were the day morgan was born.

but

i do remember that she was really small.

i remember looking at her through the lined hospital glass.

i remember my mom coming home from the hospital, but without my baby sister.

i remember calling the hospital with my mom from a pay phone in the parking lot of babies r' us, right after my mom had bought me a cabbage patch baby.

we were calling to see if morgan was strong enough to be released from the hospital.

that particular time, the answer was no. i was devastated.

&

then july 27th, just eight days after her arrival

{which seemed like an eternity to a seven year old},

morgan grace

came home to be an eddy.

{preview of some of morgan's senior photos done by none other than shutterfreek photography}

i could go on & on about all the many memories i have of my baby sister.

but, maybe i will share those on a different day.

she is one of my most favorite people.

i will always cherish the many nights that we stayed up late playing "genus world record" & that she slept with me faithfully every night of my life growing up.

happy birthday favorite sister.

you are beautiful inside & out.

i love you.

to celebrate the gift of "you" to the world.