Yeah! I Found

I had faith that my horescope was right and it was. I looked in the spot where I keep Tia's paperwork and it wasn't there. I carried a book with all of Tara's important info with me for the first six months of her adoption birth (it became my birth weight it got very heavy) I was getting ready to look through it for the umteenth time. Why I'm not sure, but I grabbed my bag I carry to work and was looking through it. You will guess by now what I found.

Tia's important citizenship paper is in a #10 envelope, she has a really cool card similar to a drivers license. Well I was looking for something like that for Tara...surprise her's is in a 9x12 gold envelope and her paper is 8 1/2 x 11 certificate style. When I received it, I thought I would need it to enroll her in school. I don't recall that I did, but I had that bag when I signed her up. Now we can get her SS applied for. Also in the envelope was another envelope, on it says "a message from the President of the United States", I would like to share it.

Dear Fellow American

I am pleased to congratulate you on becoming a United States citizen. You are now a part of a great and blessed Nation. I know your family and friends are proud of you on this special day.

Americans are united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals. The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, and that no insignificant person was ever born. Our country has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by principles that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests, and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every citizen must uphold thses principles. And every new citizen, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American.

As you begin to participate fully in our democracy, remember that what you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to serve your new Nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens building communities of service and a Nation of character. Americans are generous and strong and decent not because we believe in ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves. When this spirit of citizenship is missing, no government program can replace it. When this spirit is present, no wrong can stand against it.

Welcome to the joy, responsibility, and freedom of American citizenship. God bless you and God bless America.

Sincerely
George W. Bush

I know President Bush's poll ratings were terrible at the end of his term, but I believe in my heart this guy knew what was going on. He tried to protect our country and build it up for our children and our future. Was he perfect, no...are you?? This letter meant alot to me, I hope it can mean as much to Tara.