My Daughter

It's hard to believe, but on Friday--yes, that's Christmas Eve--my dearest daughter, my firstborn, will turn 12 years old. Twelve!!! Twelve short years ago, we spent our very first Christmas together in the hospital. Santa visited us in our hospital room and gave me a hospital logo mug filled with peppermints! And now she is on the cusp of teenagerhood. How I love this girl! And how very proud I am of her. She works hard and does so very well in school. She loves to read, loves anything to do with horses, loves to be creative, and loves to play with her brother. She has a caring heart, a compassionate soul, and a generous spirit. What an amazing journey it is watching her grow up. I'm in no rush, but I look forward to seeing who she will become!!

Last Friday night, my husband and son attended their monthly Cub Scout pack meeting, leaving us girls home for some quality time. She loves her academic teachers and, being the generous girl that she is, wanted to do something special for all four of them for the holidays. She decided to make a set of hand-stamped holiday gift tags, so we spent the evening stamping together. We had a wonderful time, and I am so proud of her results!! Here is one of the four identical tag sets she made:

We bought four small wooden boxes at A.C. Moore
for packaging her tags and tied each with
some red and white baker's twine.

After untying the twine, her teachers will discover
a baker's dozen of assorted hand-stamped gift tags,
each sporting baker's twine for easy hanging.

Each one is different! My daughter had so much
fun playing with my various Stampin' Up! tag
stamps and coordinating punches.

On Monday, she couldn't wait to deliver her gifts to her teachers and got such a thrill from their heartfelt reactions. Ah, the joy of giving!!!

Thanks so much for taking a peek at my daughter's creations today. She is so much a part of my little slice of bliss!

Challenges:

• Papertake Weekly: anything goes
• Simon Says Stamp: anything goes