Dear Sofia

by Stitcharoo626

Each year on her birthday, Sofia's parents each write her a letter with their thoughts on the previous year, as well as their thoughts about the future. Updated with Sofia's response letters to her parents chapters 19-22

14. Chapter 14

Dear Sofia,

Wow, 14 years old! I was talking to your moms not that long ago and none of us could believe that you are almost a grown up. When I'd write these letters when you were little, I thought they'd get easier to write as you got older, but they're harder each year.

We've always been lucky with your health, considering how many complications you could have had when you were a baby. The week you were in the hospital with a kidney infection in October was the scariest week of my life. Please don't ever get sick and need to be in the hospital ever again! The only time I want you to be in the hospital is when you're having a baby and that better not be for a very long time.

This was the year you decided you're too old for the nanny you and Timmy have had since you were in kindergarten. You and Timmy are as close as any fourteen year old girl would be with her eleven year old brother. I really wish I had a brother or sister when I was growing up so I would know what it's like to have an instant friend.

You seem to have a bit of a double personality, depending on whom you're around at the time. You're really pleasant for your moms and Lexie, but when I'm in the room, you refuse to talk to me. I'm really hoping it's just a phase and that I haven't done something to hurt you. You were always a Daddy's girl and I know that's not cool when you're a teenager, but please talk to me and let me know what's going on with you.

There are two years until you can get your driver's license, and you're already dropping not so subtle hints about what kind of car you want for your sixteenth birthday. I can promise you this, I've been the one to spoil you in the past, but you will not be getting a car from me in two years unless your moms agree to it since it won't be something you keep just at my house.

By the time you see these letters, you'll have 70 of them from myself, Lexie, and both your moms. I want you to take the time to read each one of them and enjoy them as you read the things we've written to you. I don't have some big life lesson for you this year, so just take the time to appreciate the people around you and let them know what they mean to you.

Love,

Dad