Dear Readers,

Feeling particularly in love with my daughter this week because we did extra fun activities like this:

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We also went on a road trip to Long Beach and Hannah went surfing. There are photos on my facebook account....

feel free to leave her some photo love comments...compliments do a teenage girl good!!!

Thanks for reading along with us on our adventures...

dear mom,

 i cant wait for saturday! it is going to be so fun! i definitly am excited for surfing :) it sucks that we cant go to vancouver but we can do other fun stuff. i am already half way through my book! i can tell it has been a long time before i read it before because i forgot alot of it ! but i am happy that i could find it again at the library. i love you


hannah

Dear hannah,

oh miss hannah,
you upstairs heartbroken equals me downstairs heartbroken.
i love you
xoxoxo, mom

Dear hannah,

you are always so vague and cheerful in your posts to me, full of thank you's and excitement...i am feeling very terrible about the ugly words I spoke to you earlier, at far too loud a decible...i appreciate that you forgave me so quickly and i am grateful that i love you so much that as soon as i was done raving, i burst into hot, sad, tears, reminding me that i did not behave as a mother should. being a teenager is hard, being a mom is hard, it feels like life is hard right now to me. However, I am very glad that we are in this "hard time" together...i love you miss hannah, from the bottom of my heart...

dear mom,

i am liking haveing two weeks out of school! what about you? but it was kinda crazy when it snowed yesterday! no wonder it was so cold out :) i am excited for our movie marathon tonight! i love you

Hannah

dear mom,

i had so much fun last night :) thank you for letting me go.i am so excited for spring break and i hope that we will be able to go to Tofino over the weekend :] i want to learn to surf alot! i cant wait for tomorow night when we get to go out to dinner together it is going to be fun!! do you know those yummy chip like things that we got at cafe mexigo? i hope that they have them at the place that we are going  because they are very yummy :) i <3 you.

Hannah.

Dear hannah,

you, my dear girl make me proud. I am very proud of your willingness to be honest about how you are feeling at any given moment. I am proud of your concern for the underdog. I am proud of how beautiful you are and how you carry yourself with grace. I am proud of you when you very carefully correct me when I am wearing a fashion disaster. I am proud of how you love on miss vayda. I am proud of you...love mom xoxox