The World According to Leslie

Thirteen years ago today, I was at Forsyth Medical Center. At 2:10am, I had a baby. Today, that "baby" is my beautiful 13 year old Princess! She's smart! She's funny! She's talented! She's tall! (This year, she's 5'6"!!) She may be taller than me next year! She's more than I could have ever asked for and more than I ever expected! I love my Princess!  Happy Birthday!

Tomorrow is my niece's 9th birthday!  The coolest thing about that is that she is #5 of 5 kids in her family!  My daughter was born in August 2003.  My niece was born in Jan. 2004.  Why is that so cool? My sis-in-law and I were pregnant at the same time.  However, because she had already had 4 kids, she knew how to "hide" hers.  She waited until after my daughter was born to tell the family.  (I think she waited until like October to tell us!) She wanted me to have all the fun (and perks) of a first pregnancy without taking any of it away from me.  Wasn't that awesome of her? Now, my daughter and my niece are best friends.  Unfortunately because of how their birthdays fall, they are in different grades.  Mine=4th; Niece=3rd.  But.... they do get to play on teams together in the softball league.  We try really hard to keep them on teams together so that they don't have to play against one another.  Since her bir...

Today would have been my Grandma's (mom's mom) 93 birthday. However, since Jesus called her home to live with Him on June 30th, she's celebrating with Him. So Happy Birthday Grandma! Have a great day celebrating with Jesus! I know that she had some wonderful birthdays here. She would talk about them and tell us her favorite birthdays...until she couldn't remember anything. (She had Alzheimer's.) But... I know that today is her BEST birthday ever! She is celebrating with Jesus!