Now I do not give my self a gold star on being a mother, quite the opposite...I am the one who is okay if their kid eats dirt, tries to climb the stairs by themselves, love on all animals. My husband - he is on the other spectrum...uber protective.
My favorite quote from my mother (while I was pregnant) "I was worried you weren't going to have kids, I was always afraid you would eat them or something...) Thanks mom, but it was true.
But I love Emily - that is her name (again probably breaking some mom rule by posting her name - but it is such a good name - Emily Aurelia V.). She has my sass, her dads humor and her own will and determination. Also she has great fashion sense already - she plays with my shoes and drapes my winter scarves over her shoulders and brings me her sunglasses to be "groove baby".
But there is one mother that truly inspires me right now - not to become a mom that I am not, not to be more religious than I am...but to have a spirit that can endure, a spirit that can find beauty and truth in sorrow, a spirit that can remain so giving and uplifting when something so treasured is gone.
Her name is Natalie Norton, and if you have time stop by her blog. Send her your love, and be inspired by hers. She is truly LOVE.
And I believe I have O.D. on my niceness for the day...more sass on the way
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