Many people are not as privileged as I am to grow up in a household where they have a voice, but I was blessed enough to have you two as parents, and I am blessed enough to be heard.
Thank you for never letting us open a Christmas gift early, thank you for playing hide and seek in the dark and scaring the living day lights out of me, thank you for squeezing my hand at Disney World daddy, and thank you for rubbing & patting my back until I fell asleep mommy.
Thank you for showing me such Godly attributes to live by, and teaching me to love the God that created me, and thank you for having amazing talks on my self worth and my insecurities- whether it be at 3 AM, or on a car ride home. Thank you.
Thank you for allowing me to choose the school I wanted to go to, you have never rushed us to make big decisions, and never held us back from our dreams.
Now you're doing the most difficult thing parents do, you're letting me go.
You're planning going away showers, buying me plates and towels and cups and you're getting a second job to help with our school expenses and buying me textbooks; even though in doing all that- you're helping me leave.
Before I go and you are no longer one room over, or even one city over- I want to let you know I'll be okay.
Don't doubt the way you've raised me, and have faith in who you've taught me to be. Through every single day I've been in this house, you've taught me at least one thing a day. I know who I am in Jesus Christ, and who I want to portray to others that I am. Don't doubt the person I have become and what I stand for.
I want you to know, I will miss you like I've never missed anyone, I will get home sick and I will most likely cry myself to sleep at least one night- I will call you when I've had a bad day and ask you to talk till I feel better; even though your not in the next room; I will always need you. both of you. forever.
But... I will also love the freedom. From the time I was able to know what freedom was I haven't been able to wait to have it. The first few weeks I will be thriving off of it. But know that it's just temporary, and don't take it personally at all.
Although this may be the end of one era, know that this is the beginning of an incredible one and the world awaits us all.
I want you to explore, find new things, make new foods, have fun without me. I want to hear about all of it when I come back! (but not too much fun.. miss me a little)
I will never let a day pass where I don't work my hardest because the two of you have never taken a break to not do that for us.
Thank you for loving me through my mistakes, and the ones I have yet to make.
I will be okay, as nervous as I am. I will. and I love you to the moon & back. ❤️🌙
