First light

Babies…babies…babies!!! Nothing gives hope and lightness more than newborn babies. They’re all around me this weekend. My bestest friend from college is being induced on Monday with her second. I think it must be a crazy flood of memories for her. Her oldest daughter is in jr. hight school so she has been out of the world of diapers and formula for years now. I think it’s probably a little scarier going back knowing what you know as a mother….remembering what is to come and how hard it all can be. The beauty is that it is all so very worth it. Then on Sunday I will be going to another girlfriend’s baby shower. It is her first and she tried and tried for this sweet blessing. I think she was about to give up when she found out she was pregnant. All the sweeter the gift in the end – but I know it was hell while she was going through it. So – to you both – Congratulations! Welcome (back for Tanja) to this crazy world of bringing life into the world and helping it grow and blossom. Call me when you’re at wits end because of lack of sleep and crazy hormones – I remember! Call me when they do something for the first time or fill your heart and soul so full of love and bliss you think you’ve reached heaven – I remember that too! And most important, at the end of the day after you’ve given them everything you have and you find yourself thinking of something you haven’t done or some way you fell short embrace your humanity and tell yourself with all the confidence in the world “I AM A WONDERFUL MOTHER!” because you are and your children think so too!