Let them be your shadows and while they’re by your side, think of all the things they took. They took a girl, or a boy, and made a mom or dad a master of home and heart. They took your time, every minute, entranced you from the start. They took your thoughts, stole every one …
That Free and Lonely Feeling
I hope I never take for granted each moment I have with my little ones. We’ve all heard the expressions – “time is a thief,” “time waits for no one,” “it all goes by in a blink.” We know and yet we don’t know, until we can’t recover the moments. It all moves so fast. …
Who I Am Belongs to Her
“Motherhood is the exquisite inconvenience of being another person’s everything.” —Unknown “A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” —George Eliot “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” —Cardinal Mermillod Who I am …
little girls grow
Little girls grow up so fast. Faster than I ever could have imagined. From a tiny baby to a teenager, it is all going by so quickly. Our parents and grandparents try to explain this phenomenon to us, but we can never see it until we are older and in the middle of experiencing it …