February 23, 2026 My letter to YAYA!

 I wrote this to you February 23, 2016... 

I remember.... The time when you would have your lil feet pushing your walker around, when | looked up at you in your crib and you were looking over the rail like feed me bitch, when you played volleyball at south Austin rec and they were down by 15 points and you served and brought them back to win the game, when you cried at the game and me and your dad were like why are you crying and you lied and said there's a penny in my shoe, when you played basketball at south Austin rec and they threw you the ball and you wanted no parts of it so you would always throw the ball away but one day you had no one to throw it at so you had to shoot it and you made a 3, and darius was so jealous cause he couldn't make 3's and you was just wetting them up after that, when you would cry at your birthday because all your friends really only came to see Darius, the first time you had a boyfriend, the first time you got your heart broke, the first time I let you drive my Cadillac and you stepped on the brake with your left foot and almost broke my dam nose on the dashboard, when you walked across the stage, when you had a break down because you do so much to please everyone else around you and forget about yourself, when you showed me how to be a better person and mother and to know my worth, when you hurt your knee and were laying out on the court and I ran down to you and acted an ass and you yelled at me lol, BUT WHAT I REMEMBER THE MOST IS THAT YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE HERE the Dr said that you had died in my stomach and I had to schedule a DNC and I never did it I prayed for God to do his work and if you were really dead to let you come out on your own and two months later I'll never forget I felt you kick and here you are YOU ARE A BLESSING AND EVERYTHING THAT I WANNA BE....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND I LOVE YOU Victoria 

Today I write to you 10 years later on February 23, 2026...

I first wrote you this 10 years ago, and today I add that you are an absolutely amazing mother! You don't just go above and beyond, you really are the heartbeat of your family. You carry so much strength in your silence and so much love in everything that you do. You give without keeping score, sacrifice without complaint, and somehow you still find the energy to smile when everyone is tired. You are the comfort and courage wrapped into one soul. You have hugs that can heal what words can't, you have patience inside of you and a voice that can calm any storm. An amazing mother doesn't just raise a child, I call you an amazing mother because I watch you building character, teaching resilience, planting seeds of confidence that I see growing every day in your daughter. You are grace under pressure. You are patience in chaos. Most importantly you are unconditional love in it's purest form. No matter how old you get just remember that you are my baby, my heart outside my body, I made you from scratch, out of all my failures and all my mistakes, you are my greatest masterpiece and all my success in one! I LOVE YOU & HAPPY BIRTHDAY YAYA aka WABBIT