Shea the helper

This is a cute photo. Shea helping me wrap her cousins graduation presents from Mom while she was in the hospital. What a wonderful little helper you are. Always pitching in with everything that needs to be done (even when thirty pieces of tape are needed to secure the wrapping) but more important my sweet girl you are a loving encourager!!! You are positive, caring, supportive and nurturing. You helped take care of Grandma in the most loving and touching manner that I never want to forget what you did for her to make her feel better. And you DID make her feel better. You even made sure I helped cut her food smaller so it would be easier for her to swallow. Such beautiful personality traits you have my sweet and special niece!

I love watching you bloom Shea. You have a beautiful heart and I love being around you. You always make me feel good about myself without trying. It's so natural coming from you that it sometimes blows me away with the surprise of it but also the maturity of your character. I'll never forget a few weeks ago when I was in Uncle Dale's pool with you, when I finally dunked under water for the first time getting my hair all wet, as I came up you said, I looked pretty. Wow! You just know instinctively and with complete innocence how to say the right thing to make a person feel good even if it's something little like making a middle-aged aunt think she may still have it going on....lol . And believe me when I say that made me feel real good! lol

The real pleasure of those words are that it was YOU who thought I was pretty and that you would say this to me made my evening....oh heck made my year!!!

I love you bunches "my Chickadee!"