My Girl...

Today, my little girl becomes a teenager. 13. A number that somehow holds more weight than all the others before it... because with it comes strength, growth, beauty and the beginning of becoming who you truly are.

My love, we’ve danced through life in a way that no one else can quite understand. Through the hardest storms, we’ve held hands, tightly, sometimes silently but always together. Even when everything around us felt heavy or uncertain, we found a way to laugh, to smile with our eyes, to share our little secrets... those quiet little ways we say “I love you” without needing a single word.

You are magic in motion. You are the music only we can hear.

And I’ll keep dancing this invisible song with you forever.

Happy 13th birthday, my brave, beautiful, fierce girl.

Thank you for teaching me how to handle life’s biggest challenges with a giggle and a grip that never lets go.

I love you always... in every secret way and every loud one, too.