Happy Birthday! Catherine Elizabeth! Yea!

 

(Off to rhe Botanical-Gardens to---celebrate...in the ice-storm!)

 

 

Happy Birthday! Catherine Elizabeth!

(February 11, 2019)

 

To acknowledge that I loved you the very first-time

I laid eyes on you would be redundant on my part.

I “fell” in-Love with you well-before your birth.

And---suddenly (from my perspective)…there you were!

A bundle-of-softness wrapped in a yellow-blanket, all-Love!

My brown-eyed blonde-beauty  little-girl!---Wow!...Very-Special!

I wore out two rocking-chairs, holding you and dreaming-away.

Of course, they were not new; “no”-money; but, Loving!-warm!

You had a “cut-down” from an old winter-coat; first snow next-

year we bundled you up, wrapped bread-bags around your feet to

serve as boots and took “our little-girl” sled-riding. Always-fun!

 

And, I had to get you cow-girl boots, denim-jeans, western-hat and,

naturally, a pair of toy six-guns so we could play cowboys; reckon

sure enough, in those early-days, “Dad” had not grown-up!? Hmm!?

Somebody slammed a hole in a bedroom door with a Pop-gun barrel

when Beth, Becky & dad had an inside-the-house snowball fight! Uh!-Oh!

 

You just had to have a “horse”!---So?...We bought: “Little-Lady”! Great!

She taught you to ride---or you taught her…such a “natural”…at-everything!

Girl! You could ride-the-wind---if…I could just figure-out How to saddle-it!?

 

On Thanksgiving Day, when you were “4”, Mom baked-dinner while you and I

trekked to the “farm”. I put you on Lady and off you went toward the woods.

About an hour later---here you came…leading Little-Lady!? She dumped you!

Your yellow coat had grass stains on the shoulder; you had a broken collar-bone!

Mom still let us go-off on “adventures” after that---I never did “grow-up”!...Reckon-so!

(Maybe-I thought about it---once…just (still)…having too much fun being a “kid”! Sure-enough!)

Little-sister Becky came along---we are so proud…you-two are “Best-friends”!

Taught you to drive the pick-up at 12! Got you a .22-rifle! Sure had us a wild-time!

 

Tennessee! Colorado! Oregon! Florida! Many-adventures through-the-years!

High-school! Convertibles! Soft-ball! Fishing! (Hmm!) Pets!---and…Horses!

Hawaii! College! Europe! Fun & games! Horse-shows! Trail-rides! Law-school!

 

Then---more treasure-Joy!...our “Z.-Tyler man!” And, “Darling Lexli-Lu!”

Adding-pleasure:  “Little-Professor” Miss Lauren & our-“Pistola”-Anna Marie!

 

Couldn’t have prescribed a-more “Beautiful”-life! Wouldn’t have dared interfere!

Thank-you! Each-of-you! We love you! Perfect!-Daughter! -Mother! -Individual!

 

Happy Birthday! Beth!---

Love!...Mom & “Poppa”