Emerald’s Gem Box: Happy Birthday Brooke

Thursday, Jan. 21, will be the 26th birthday of my daughter Brooke! Brooke is my second child, being born two years after Cheltsie. I think the second child seems to grow up "tougher" than the first, for they have to learn to fight back to the older sibling's bullying and they seem to need to "keep up."   Brooke was always a tomboy at heart. She dressed prissy and like a girl, but she loved the farm life and outdoors like a boy. She was the one to pick up the frogs and lizards in the house to throw out for me. She was the one to get snakes out of the pool and hook up all the trailers and haul equipment around for me. She loved the farm life and started her own "cattle business" by th