First off, there is a lot to unpack here. From Blog entries Dad made throughout the years, to your graduation party slideshows, to a collection of some of my favorite videos of you through the years. What I am saying is, this could be a while, so feel free to space the experience out throughout the week. 🙂
Selections from Dad’s Blog about Shel:
(note from Dad – Feel free to read any of the entries. I have older entries I have still yet to move to this Blog, but check back every so often and maybe I will have posted them by then. And as I read through them, I find myself wishing I had written so much more. So many little memories here, but also I fear, many others that I have forgotten.)
- Are you scared?…OK, I will make you feel better – October 10, 2003
- Run Shelby Run – December 2010
- The End of an Era – January 26, 2011
- Happy Kitty Girl – March 18, 2011
- Weekend of Awesomeness – December 9, 2011
- Happy Birthday on the Mend – March 1, 2015
- Superhero Chronicles – April – June 2015
- Forbidden Journey on the Valido Trail – Posted October 2019 (written January 2017)
- What the heck is Martlet Anyway? – September 6, 2020
And here are the memories I had gathered for your graduation party. I dare you to watch this stuff without tearing up. I am also listening to a family outside the porch right now pointing out a butterfly to their toddler son. All those memories of walking around with you as you discovered the world. It’s such an amazingly powerful emotion for us parents. I hope you’re still discovering and exploring. We still all love you to the moon and back.
life as FOW 