“Mom look! Mom LOOOK!!!”

Brooklyn came rushing in tonight as I was giving Parker a bath and she is literally ripping open an envelope as if it contained tickets & back stage passes to the Jonas Brothers.

“Brooklyn! What are you doing?” (I’m a bit frantic because she totally better not be ripping MY backstage pass to meet Joe Jonas).

“I got a letter from Alex” ….I sit there confused …Joe, Kevin, Nick…um, no Alex.

“Alex who?”

“MOOOOOM!!!! Alex…ALEX!!!!”

“Oh, Alex Burton?”

“I don’t know her last name…Alex, from youth…my piano teacher!”

“Yea, her last name is Burton…she sent you a letter?”

“Well, it’s to our family but I opened it” As the last of the shredded envelope falls to the floor

“um, yea…I see that..what is it.”

“i don’t know..here…but I’m keeping these pictures.” and she BOLTS. Literally, leaves me in a pile of paper and tosses a card at me.

I picked up a Reagan High School graduation announcement and see where half of the inside is ripped out which I’m assuming is where a photo was onced adhered.

Alex is Brooklyn’s piano teacher and she is also a member of my youth group. She is such an amazing young lady and I’ve been so blessed to have spent the last few years watching her emerge as a strong leader in our youth program.

She’s a gifted pianist & she plays soccer for Reagan. Last year she started teaching Brooklyn piano. It’s been awesome to watch Brooklyn get so excited about something and Alex has become THE role model for her.

I have been trying to get Brooklyn back involved in soccer. She played a couple years ago and she liked it but she hasn’t wanted to play since. She just kept telling me that she wanted to play piano. I finally figured out she thought she had to do one or the other. It was either become a great pianist or become a great soccer player. And that was ok with me….but I still wanted her to play soccer.

After a couple weeks of piano she finally realized that Alex did BOTH..piano & soccer and she decided quickly she wanted to sign up for soccer again. We were so happy. She loves soccer and is having so much fun and working so hard at both her piano & her soccer skills.

I digress….

Once I finally managed to pick up the 82 million pieces of paper in the bathroom floor I asked Brooklyn if she would kindly share with me the contents of the envelope she had confiscated.

“Well, these are my pictures…but you can look at them”

“for the love of pete girl, I’ll give them back..just let me see them”

She handed me Alex’s senior picture…stunning of course.

Then she handed me a 4×6 print of a screen shot of  THIS!!!!!

When I saw it I forgot all about the backstage passes to the Jonas Brothers. I was so stinkin’ excited for Alex! So cool.

“Why are you so excited Mom?”

“Alex was named Soccer Player of the year!” ….followed by a 15 minute “look what you can do when you set your mind to it” lecture.

“Mom, I’m totally going to be Soccer Player of the Year when I play for Reagan!  And do you think they have Piano player of the year?” 

And because all blog posts are better with pictures I swipped some images from Alex’s facebook account to share with you. ( i didn’t take any of these nor am I claiming them as my work…simply sharing)

CONGRATS ALEX!!!!!!!!!! So so proud of you!!!!!