Hello, my name is Mama.

I love being a mother. It's the most challenging, trying job I've ever had... but it's been worth every tear, every hardship, every owie, booboo, and wail. This thing... this new kind of love... I swear you don't know what REAL love is until you become a parent. It envelopes you. It opens so many avenues to so many roads. I was watching Ari tonight... she didn't know I was watching. She was concentrating so hard on playing dress up... trying to get the glossy satin pink gloves to cover each individual finger. Trying to get the clip on earrings just right. She was such a little... girl. A beautiful little girl. Later on we were playing with a flashlight on the floor of the living room in the dark... we were shining it up on the ceiling and making shapes and laughing... she was laying her little head on my chest and we just smiled at eachother. Every now and then I have these little revelations of motherhood... this was one of them. There are times in life where we feel like we are going to lose ourselves in the chaos that surrounds us. All I have to do is look into her big, brown, innocent eyes and I'm grounded again. She brings me back to earth and sends me into the hemisphere at the same time.
Hello, my name is Mama.