Today I would like to share about a sweetness that walked into my life over 22 years ago… A cuddle Bug from the first day I met her… She would lie on me for hours as a baby… She used to climb into bed with me and snuggle up on the weekends, and sometimes in the middle of the night… She did this until she was about fourteen… I would tickle her and listen to her lovely laugh and screams to stop, and then I would tell her she was my pillow, and I would fluff her up…
We have been through a great deal her and I… Divorces, packing, moving, unpacking, new schools, new jobs, new boyfriends, proms, weddings, the loss of drinking chocolate at Starbucks, extreme changes, and many many minor ones… Through all of this and more, she has always loved me and even when she was really pissed off, truly sad, or simply being a teenager, it has been clear her mother has always been so important to her… Something I assure I do not take for granted…
When she was little we would playfully argue over who loved who more; “I love you, I love you more, I love you the most, I love you the mostestest, I love you bigger than the moon and the stars and the great big sky”… She went through that phase where it was not ok to say I love you, to your mom, and still today I am a bit surprised when she says it, not that she is ever reluctant, I just got used to the years she didn’t… I am grateful each time she does now, and I am lucky it is often… I have watched her become a beautiful woman… I used to tell her how beautiful and gorgeous she was, and one day I saw her almost disappointed by it, and this struck a place within me that made me realize she did not understand that the beauty I spoke of had nothing to do with how she looks… When I told her this, you could see her visibly lighten up… It was the sweetest thing, as if anyone that knows her wouldn’t love her simply for being… She has this softness about her that tells you she is not of this planet…
She is an amazing woman who I know will do awe inspiring things through her life… I know that she inspires awe in me each time I see her and listen to her… I am truly deeply honored to have been chosen to be her mother and her friend, my cup runneth over… My everlasting gratitude of such a gift…
How does it get even better than that???