My daughter Kelsey is who I call my “Dream Come True”. She is, but she is not the only “dream come true” in my life. I only refer to her that way, because I waited so long for a darling little girl to come into my life. She is serving a mission right now, for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As of yesterday, she has been gone for 6 months. She’ll be home in one year. What a blessing she is to me, and our family!

Kelsey at eight years old!

When Kelsey was eight years old, she was riding her bicycle around our driveway. She was focusing so hard on where she was going, she didn’t notice that one of the neighborhood boys had just gone off a jump and was headed straight for her. They collided and both of them landed on the ground. After checking them out we realized that Kelsey was bleeding from her forehead. She had about a one inch gash. We cleaned her up and headed for the hospital for stitches. On the way to the hospital we talked about what was going to happen.

She started to cry and said, “I’m just very upset, because my skin is very important to me!”

I told her I understood, because her skin was very important to me, too. What a darling little girl! She made it through the stitches, and you can barely see the scar, but we have never forgotten the cute thing she said that day.