Spring Beginnings

Each spring, I am blessed with the memories of having my first child, of driving to the hospital just after dawn on a stormy spring morning, seeing jonquils blooming by the roadside and newborn lambs testing out their wobbly legs.  Spring isn't just the beginning of new life, it marks the beginning of a new life that forever changed mine.

I'm a realist to my core, and even when I was very young, I knew there was a chance I would never marry or have children; it just doesn't happen for everyone.  There were times, years in fact, when I felt certain that love was just not for me, so from the very first moment that I found out I was going to be a mother, I was ecstatic.  I feel head over heels in love with both my children before I ever saw them.  From the very first moment, I knew there was a unique, complete, and worthy being entrusted to my care and that no job, hobby, or relationship would ever measure up to this high calling.

My beautiful girl, made it so easy to walk away from everything else that people desperately try to derive meaning from and find out in the end meant nothing at all, and give all my love and effort and strength and care to the only thing that truly matters in this life--family.  I gave my all first to her and then to her sister.  Because even though I thought was giving her my all, turns out I had even more to give and we gladly welcomed another member to out family when her sister arrived.

And, so this spring, as my daughter turns 18 and prepares to go out into the world and find the wind that fills her sails, I look at all the new life and imagine with hopefulness what awaits my precious girl in her new life, and I look back on all our years together with a full and thankful heart. 

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