Watch me Write my Name in the Sand...

She is soft spoken at times,

I notice this when she is embracing something new...

She whispers, as if not to startle the moment,

"Mom, can I go in the water?"...

"Yes Jacie, you can go in the water"...

Her strides consist of inches, 

she is a cautious one...

She says, "Mom, can I go out a little further?"

I say, "Yes Jacie"...

She says, "Mom, can I make a sand castle?"

I say, "Of course Jacie"...

And I looked at that castle and it made me smile,

She had made the best darn sand castle I had ever seen in my life...

When she was done with her castle she said, "Mom, can I be a mermaid?"

I said, "Yes Jacie"...

And when I saw her sitting on that rock flapping her little feet like a fin,

I knew she was the sweetest mermaid I had ever seen...

And after all that could be done was done,

she knew the time was coming to leave,

So she took a few minutes to say goodbye to her sand castle 

and she dipped her feet in one more time...

I packed up our things and asked her if she was ready to leave,

She looked at me and whispered,

"Mom, before we leave can you watch me write my name in the sand?"

I said

"Yes Jacie"...

And when I saw her name in the sand I remembered the exact moment I chose her name...

I knew, before she took her first breath, that I would have these moments with her...

"My Jacie"