2003-09-09 @ 2:17 p.m.
Dear Savannah,
I am truly sorry that I have to spend so much time away from home, you and your sister. There is nothing I would rather be doing this week more than just holding you and playing with you. When you smile at me it just melts my heart. Trucking is what I do though; it�s how I make my money. The very nature of transportation business is being away from home for days or weeks at a time. Bills must be paid, and food brought home. This is how I do it. Maybe I shouldn�t apologize for my line of work, but I just felt like I should.
I�ve been thinking about some of the questions you might want to ask me someday. I think perhaps one of the most common is whether or not you were planned. While it�s true that your mother and I didn�t set out to have a second child, or first for that matter, we simply said that if it were meant to be it would happen. I put a lot of trust in the good Lord to handle such decisions, and thus far he�s done a great job. I did, however want girls, and nothing but girls. In so far as your name is concerned, that was totally my idea. It has nothing to do with a city in Georgia or anywhere where else. It has nothing to do with it being a barren plain either! I simply thought the name was really pretty. It is coincidence that your sister�s name concerns a land mass as well. Someone pointed that out to me after you were born.
You�ve gone up another diaper size already. You are growing so fast. When I come home you have almost grown an inch it seems. You still have a stuffy nose, but the humidifier helped a lot. I wish your mother would stop smoking. I have tried over and over until I have worn the subject out. I hope you never start, it�s a really bad habit, not to mention expensive. A carton of the things are $30.00! Everything is so high now. I hope she quits, but it�s hard to do. Don�t razz her so bad about it, she would quit if she could. There�s so much I want to tell you about and explain to you, but I get emotional when I think about it. There is so little time.
I love you sweetheart!