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Dear Holly: Our Trip to the County Fair This Year

7 years, 3 months.

Dear Holly,

The Williamson County Fair has become so popular and so crowded, that we decided to go on a school night for the first time!

With you and your brother being older now, it’s nice being able to get away with things like that.

We didn’t really have to worry about traffic getting there or lines to get on rides.

Otherwise, we would be waiting in a line that goes for miles, just to get off the Interstate.

So, lesson learned: From now on, we will always go to the County Fair on Thursday night.

The County Fair was a hit and we all had fun!

 

 

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: You’re Now in the 2nd Grade!

7 years, 3 months.

Dear Holly,

I keep forgetting you’re not in 1st grade anymore!

This is now your 3rd year in Elementary School.

For this first week, they are still figuring out the bus schedules, so I have been walking you to and from school each day in order to keep you from being late.

Since we take the shortcut alongside the cornfield behind our house, I have to pick up you and carry you for a ways across the grass; so you don’t get all soggy like my boots do instead.

Once we get to the field, you always say, “Yay! The Daddy Chair!

Because I pick you up, then hold you just like a chair you would sit in, as we traverse the dewey grass.

It’s quite fancy.

You must be special or something!

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: You’re Ready to Go Back to School Now

7 years, 3 months.

Dear Holly,

I asked you just now, “Are you excited to start 2nd grade tomorrow?”

You confirmed: “Yes, because this summer… has been kind of boring.”

Forget about the trip to California we took last month, I guess.

I’ll take that as you implying you had a nice, relaxing summer; so now you are ready to be challenged again.

We met your teacher yesterday and she was so excited to welcome you to her class.

She let you pick any desk you wanted in her classrooom. You chose the one closest to the teacher’s.

I made it official as I confirmed to your teacher: “Looks like Holly is going to be your teacher’s pet this year!”

 

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: Your Father’s Day Card You Made For Me

7 years, 2 months.

Dear Holly,

Leading up to Father’s Day last week, I found a little surprise in my notebook for work: “I love you, Daddy.”

So it was no surprise to when it actually was Father’s Day, you gave me a special homemade card that you had worked on all week.

You are wired like I am:

When it comes to the 5 Love Languages, Words of Affirmation is at the top!

Something that makes it so easy to appreciate you and relate to is that you make a point to tell your family how much they mean to you!

Love,

Daddy

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Dear Holly: You Helped Mommy Repaint Our Backyard Sign

7 years, 2 months.

Dear Holly,

We have always talked as a family about the idea of buying one of those giant metal chickens for our backyard. This past weekend, we settled for two lifesize metal chickens instead.

After we set them up in the backyard, Mommy decided our sign that hanging up on the fence needed to be repainted, since the words had completed faded. They originally read, “This is My Happy Place.”

Our backyard has now had a little makeover. We can enjoy it for about another week… until the mosquitoes and humidity make it too miserable to be outside in Tennessee for the rest of the summer.

Love,

Daddy