That daughter of mine......

She made me cry again. She catches me off guard. Her birthday was last week. She turned 9. She came to me crying a little this weekend. I asked her why. She said that she had been checking the mailbox every day since her birthday. But she had only gotten 3 birthday cards. She said she was afraid that no one loved her as much as Shawn because he got a bunch of cards on his birthday. And then she started sobbing and fell into my lap. What do you tell a baby when she puts that together? I wonder what was so busy with my family that they couldn't send her a card when they sent one to Shawn? Is he just that much more of a charmer than her? I love her. But she made me cry again.