Why? Good question.
Five and a half years ago, Kerry and I named the best person we know 'Abigael.' It was a name that wasn't really on our moniker radar but the night that we brought her home, we tried it out on her and it seemed to work. We went for a slightly non-traditional spelling simply because we thought it looked cool -- but decided that she would be Abby to the rest of the world because (a) it's cute and (b) there would still be a chance that we could find some personlized dollar-store garbage for her in the future. We were really thinking ahead about the important stuff!
Fast forward about five years. Our little Miss is growing up just fine thank you very much -- either because or inspite of us. And one day she declared that from now on, she would be 'Abi' and not 'Abby" (though she would still like to be 'Abby J' at school to counterbalance the presence of 'Abby L.')
I've been preparing for the days when everything I do is wrong and everything she does is right. In my mind, I know there will be a time when the best person I know will think that I am the worst person she knows. I know that she has a mind of her own and that the only constant in her big little world is change. But I didn't expect those 'changes' to start so soon.
So... okay. Abby is 'Abi.' And from now on this will be the home of my daughter's stalker photographers -- even if the picture-maker happens to be... Abi.
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