Heart Act To Follow

This is the name of the award Margaret Rose received at school today. Once a month they recognize a student from each room who exemplies positive character traits. Regardless of Margaret Rose's academic difficulties, all her teachers think she is a wonderful student. She is kind and compassionate and oh so very cheerful. She is such a blessing to our family! There are times when I just despair that she had to wait 5 whole years for one of her own. She obviously wanted one. Her teachers tell us that in every thing she writes and says her love for her family and her gratefulness to have one just shine through. She is truly the sweetest child I've ever encountered. Her thoughtfulness shows in many ways but none more than in the love she shows for her naughty little sister. I think about her coming home from school on her first Halloween and immediately sitting in the floor to divide her candy so that Mary Clare could have some. I remember her finding her first Easter basket and screaming for Mary Clare to come so that she could give her the Pixie Stixs out of it not knowing that Mary Clare had some of her own. And I think about them racing to the table or the car or to PoPo and how Margaret Rose will always stop when she's ahead and hold out her hand for Mary Clare so that "we both can win." We are so blessed to have her as our daughter and sister. We love you Margaret Rose!!!!