It really doesn’t matter what day it is, really every day is a good day to be grateful…
Today I am grateful for a very new baby that has grown into a very compassionate man… This child blessed me with the joy of loving someone so instantly for no other reason than he came through me… He was so filled with personality right from the start… He was and has always been clear what he wanted and how to get it, even when the answer was no… I fell in love right from the moment we met… I watched him yawn and stretch and fell in love again and again… I have seen him through the teething, the infections, and the good grades and not so good… Through stiches and road rash incidents, friendships, endings… I have watched him graduate, and become a man…
I am every day proud of the person he has become… I would love to tell you that it was all my doing, though that would not be the truth… He came into this world to be who he is in every day, and though I know I have had an ever present effect in his world… I have absolutely no doubt he would have become this man no matter who raised him…
He is someone I am in awe of every day…He has a huge forgiving heart… I have seen people treat him truly poorly, I have myself done things I am not at all proud of in my learning to be a mother… I have seen and heard his sisters be what could only be considered cruel, and unkind, in the name of sibling rivalry… and I have heard them ask him for something shortly after this treatment and he is ever willing to be there for them… He has a heart larger than any I know; he loves you so deeply, so truly, and is so easily hurt…
I wish for him a love that not only embraces all that he is in each moment, it receives without question the depth that he brings to it from his heart…