- I'll try to sew you Halloween costumes as long as you'll let me.  Especially onesies with animal ears.
- I'll write you letters each year of your life, to look back on and know how much you were loved even before you could understand.
- Your friends can feel welcome at our house and feel safe on their bad days.  I hope you learn to comfort others and sit with them in their sadness.
- We can have cheat days and eat all the cookies we make.
- I hope you learn to love life, and live fully, and find a purpose that sets your heart on fire. 
- I pray that you rest in Him all your days.  When you fall, that you'll turn and seek Him.  That you'll be safe.

I've been told that I should pray about you.  So here it goes:

- I hope you let me change your wardrobe (if you need the help, of course ;))
- I'm going to need a lot of alone time, not because I'm annoyed with you but just because that's how I refuel.  I hope you're okay with that.
- Hopefully you're good with kids... because you're probably going to have to be the Fun parent.
- Please feel safe with me.  Show me your thoughts, worries, random daydreams, mistakes.
- Don't be afraid to keep digging deeper, gently, over time.  Even when I hesitate.  Because I want to be known, but no one has ever really understood until you.
- I pray that you're waiting patiently for me, as I am for you.  That you don't get too discouraged or lonely.  That you're able to find joy in the day to day as you strive to make the world better in your own way.
- Life your life to the fullest.  Now.  There's only so much time we have.  And whatever time we'll have together, let's make it the best.
- Come watch a sunrise with me once a year.
- May who you are and will be, be because of Him, inside and out.