I wish I was 6 months old sometimes....

Dear Lulu,
Ever seen the movie Freaky Friday? hahahaha. Ok I know you haven't. Not yet - but maybe by the time you read this you'll know what I'm talking about. Except the new one will be the old one to you....but whatever...the point is that sometimes it's so hard for me to not want to switch places with you.

Just earlier today I was thinking about how life is so much more complicated than I ever thought it would be. So many decisions, so many worries. The more I thought about it the more concerned I became about you coming to terms with it when you get out in the world on your own. So guess what...Ma has some advice.

Life is not in itself difficult. We just make it that way. FOR EXAMPLE! On New Years Eve your grandma Maizy came by. She gave me 20 bucks and said she wanted me to celebrate her birthday with her hahaha :) I planned on using it to buy groceries as right now you and I have a 10 dollar bill and a change jar to last us the next week and a bit. And then I lost it. And it was like the world crashed down on top of me. HOW WAS I GOING TO BUY GROCERIES!??!? Then I realized I was going to do it the exact same way I was going to do it before Maizy gave me that 20 dollars. I was fine before I had it and I was going to be just fine now that it was gone. But once you have experienced the power of holding money you didn't have in your hand its hard to remember what it was like when you didn't have it.....so the best advice I can give you about taking care of your physical needs in times of need is to just trust in God. It's taken me 25 years to figure out what He contributes to our time spent here on earth. I pray that you will figure it out much sooner, and not take it for granted. The simpler you keep things the richer and fuller your life will be.

What I'm trying to say is 1) Money is a necessity, but you don't need a lot of it to experience life and 2) Don't bother asking us for any, because if we had any to begin with, mom probably lost it on the street somewhere.


<3 Ma

PS. I found it later on that night in the park where I ran the dogs :) Desperate times call for desperate measures, lemonaid.