Seventeen Reasons to Love Katie

1. She's my partner in crime. We laugh together a lot.
2. She's more obssessed with British TV than I am. 
3. She takes lovely pictures.
4. She was my first little girl, my lifelong dream realized, a pink fuzzy dream come true.
5. She works super hard on her schoolwork.
6. She is passionate about things.
7. She's ardently pro-life.
8. She has big dreams, lots of goals and is steadily working toward them
9. She is a great big sister. They all count on her (although they don't all own up to it).
10. She has a lovely laugh.
11. I can hand her a pile of craft stuff and she makes what I want.  I love that.
12. She loves Mass.
13. She does what she says she is going to do.
14. She answers the phone when it's a telemarketer.
15. She ties all my scarves for me, apparantly I'm unskilled in this area.
16. She's a bonafide daddy's girl.
17. She's a gift from God for which her father and I thank Him everday. 

We love you dear Katie, seventeen is going to be a very good year!