My Beautiful Daughter Leah

I am so so proud of Leah. Leah is a confident, strong, artist, Mom, and entrepreneur.

It was so fun watching Leah grow up and become her own person.

Leah was born two weeks early, the tiniest of our babies. She slept 22 out of 24 hours for the first 6 months of her life and then had her days and nights mixed up. She had the tiniest little wrists and dark hair as a baby. She was a busy child, always moving, but very quiet. In elementary school, Leah had braces, glasses and we had to give her two allergy shots a week. Leah is a middle child. Growing up, she was often ill with asthma, sinus infections, and pneumonia, but she ran cross country in high school without an inhaler! I remember when she first played soccer, she ran behind all the other kids because she didn’t have enough lung power or long enough legs to keep up, but she proudly announced, “I kicked the ball once, mama!” She tried volleyball and basketball. Once her basketball team was way ahead and her teammates kept passing her the ball, hoping she would get a basket. She tried and tried! By the end, even the other team was in on it! She was musical and she loved hanging out at our neighbor’s house behind us. She and Anna played in the yard for hours and were pretty much inseparable. It was from Kathy, that Leah learned to bake and decorate. Leah always had pets and was an amazing caretaker of them. She had a baby doll that she took everywhere she went for an entire year when she was 5. Leah was always in multi age classrooms even in kindergarten! Leah played violin in the gold orchestra. I got to travel to New York City with her in high school and watch her orchestra perform at Carnegie Hall!

In middle and high school, Leah had a great friendship group and still is friends with many of those same girls. Leah wasn’t a rule breaker but she developed her own ways of doing things.

Leah decided to go to Bethel college in North Newton and it was the best choice ever. She initially decided to major in elementary art instruction but also played in the school orchestra. Leah met her husband, David, at Bethel and they married fairly young. Leah taught art for two years at middle and elementary school.

Leah and her husband and two kids live in a beautiful little house, perfectly decorated, close to where David works at Flint Hills Design. They co own Prairie Harvest, a local cafe and health food store for which Leah does the social media and some floor displays.

Leah runs her very own business from their home, Lavender and Clover. She makes and sells art products from cards and prints to printed fabrics, baby items, etc. She sells online, at pop up shows and has her products in many stores.

Leah is an amazing parent to her two kids, Henry who is almost one and Emmet, almost three. She is so patient and kind. She teaches them to share, play together, get along, and express themselves. She lets them get dirty and help with gardening and chores. She teaches them love of art and music.

I love Leah’s creativity and joy for life. I love to look at her Instagram photos and visit her house. She has it tough staying home with two little guys but she handles it with such grace. She is her very own person in her gentle way. I also love it when she comes to see me!

Author: dianegclark

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