My sweet girls, there will come a day when you are no longer little. A day when your legs are long, your voices are sure, and your dreams stretch far beyond the walls of our home. One day, you will be women navigating a world that is big and complicated and beautiful. But my hope, my intention, and my prayer is that you will also be ladies. Not in the old-fashioned sense, where being a lady meant being quiet or pleasing, but in a way that honors the power and dignity already blooming inside you. My sweet girls, you are becoming women every day. Womanhood begins quietly in your daily choices, in the way you speak to others, in your courage to try again after something feels hard. It grows when you ask big questions, protect your hearts, stand up for yourselves, laugh loudly, and choose kindness even when it’s not easy. Every time you practice patience, or bravery, or honesty that is womanhood taking root. And I see it in you already. But being a lady is something deeper. My...