A Mother's Day Letter to Lauren

Dear Lauren,

On this Mother's Day Eve, we spent the evening with some dear friends and their three week old baby girl, Katherine Kendall.

As you were holding her, it occurred to me how quickly the time has gone.  How you were once that small, and yet I only have pictures to remind me. 

This Mother's Day, you are now almost three years old and yet I feel like I’ve loved you forever. I now completely understand how my own Mother feels.  A complete longing to be near you child, and the reminder that our journey together is going all too fast.  I hope I can do as well by you as she did for me.

Being a Mom is not always easy.  But the days are more blissfull than not, and I thank God every day that our path to parenthood brought us to you.  Had I known, I wouldn't have shed a single tear.  There is no doubt you were born to be ours.

Words don’t even begin to express how much more beautiful you make our life together. As you grow and take in this world around you, know that you are loved today and EVERYDAY all because you’re you! Sweet precious little you.

All my love,

Mommy