Dear Lucy,
Today you are 17 years old! Unfortunately, you have been so sick the past few days. You can barely talk and you aren't sleeping well. For your birthday, you wanted money for concert choir tour, so no gifts today! You had such a blast on tour with a fun group of boys and girls that stuck together the whole time. I'm so happy you went and you loved it! I hope your grades have improved because they have definitely faltered these last few weeks. I hope you can stick it out until you get accepted to school somewhere! Tomorrow we are going to drive up to Logan so that you can tour the Utah State campus. Then later this week, you, Poppy and I are headed to St. George for a little getaway. While we are there, we are going to to tour the Utah Tech campus. Hopefully that will help give you a better idea of what you want to do after high school. You are definitely deep in teenager-hood. You dislike almost everything and everyone (at least here at home). It is a struggle to get you to be enthusiastic about anything besides hanging out with your friends and looking at snapchat. It's basically the worst, but I am really trying hard not to take it personally and just trying to realize that your brain is still developing. I hope deep down that you know how much you are loved and how smart and special you are. Happy birthday to my firstborn!
xo-mom
