My Katie

Every now and then my mother’s heart swells to the point of bursting with pride and joy over my kids. This post is for my Katie girl. She is now twenty-one and I am so thankful for who she is and is becoming. She is so beautiful, but not just outwardly, even though that is the first thing you would notice about her upon seeing her. She cares so deeply about people. Daily she comes home and tells me a story about someone she met, and with so much empathy that I feel am meeting them as well as she tells it. She has always been this way.  She also has a deep love for the Hispanic people and culture. She is currently majoring in Spanish at the University of Georgia and hopes to raise the money to study abroad in Valencia, Spain in January.  It will be hard on me to let her go. Her presence here is so comforting. When she is here, I can usually hear her playing her guitar in worship, or hear her laughing on the phone to friends. She is also very spontaneous. All someone has to do is mention ” Salsa dancing” and she has her salsa shoes on and is halfway out the door.  Another favorite thing about Katie is her love for playing dress up or creating characters. I never know what I am going to find when I come home sometimes. The other day it was a southern belle, a costume she found for nearly nothing at a consignment store. Not long before that, she took her brother  Johnny to Kroger and bought  some cheap Halloween wigs and they morphed into English rock stars (accents and all), and a spontaneous photo shoot broke out. Life is never boring around here.

Lastly, I love her heart for God and for His worship. I am including a song she and her daddy wrote for Project Lifesong, the brain child of Miriam Ahkuoi and Playchase Music, where songs help to tell people’s life stories. Though it is barely audible, I can hear her daddy counting off the beginning, and I can hear his tenderness for her in his voice.

Click the play button to hear her song.

Katie has long been one of my photo guinea pigs. Lucky for me, she has a flare for the dramatic. Below are some photos of my Katie girl.