Six years ago today, it was close to 60 degrees. I know this because it was the day I brought home my younger daughter from the hospital. Despite the weather, I insisted on dressing her in the same pink, fleecy bunting, I'd come home from the hospital in nearly 33 years before.
Regular readers know that I always write inscriptions on the books I give my daughters for their birthdays. Today my younger daughter turned 6. I only gave her two books, with two more to follow which align thematically with a gift that my parents will give her this weekend. I chose these two because they inspired repeated requests for reading, but I realized they dovetailed nicely with each other as they are both about sibling relationships. So without further ado, here are the two books I gave her and what I wrote in them.
The Seven Chinese Sisters. May you and your sister always find your own strengths and use them to help each other.
Rotten Richie and the Ultimate Dare. As you and your sibling grow up, fight, and compete with each other, may you always respect each other's passions and accomplishments and remember that, in spite of it all, you love each other. After all, just see whom the author dedicated this book to! [It's her brother, of course, the "rotten Richie" of the title.] What books have you given as gifts? Do you inscribe them?
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