Born to you

I posted this on FB last night, but I wanted to share it here as well. It warmed me deep in my soul, it stretched those sinews that anchor my heart to my spirit and it made me feel effortlessly loved. Unconditionally.

The kids were riding bikes in the driveway yesterday afternoon. Ava came up to me and asked, out of the blue, "I was born from you, Mommy?" So I explained that, yes, she grew in my belly and was born from me. And then she said, "I was born from you, and you were born to me, and that's cause why we love each other, Mommy!"

She was born from me. I was born to her. And THAT is why we love each other.

I hope beyond hope that our love will always be so simple and uncomplicated. I hope that we never let our petty issues get in the way of our love for each other. I hope that I always make the effort to show my children, to tell them, to LOVE them the way they deserve to be loved. Even when they let me down, even when they disappoint me, even if we don't see eye to eye. I hope that I can be the kind of mother to them that they will want to be to their own children some day.

My love for them...some days I wonder if anything else really matters at all?

On a related note, I took these pictures in the koala house at the Cleveland Zoo yesterday. I could have sat and watched this mom and baby for hours. The baby is almost one year old and the zookeeper in the koala house told me that she didn't know how much longer the mom was going to keep holding the baby while they slept, because it was clear that the mom was not very comfortable and she kept giving the baby the stink-eye every time the baby fidgeted and moved around. It can't have been very comfortable for either of them, but oh my goodness, was it ever cute to watch!





And one of my monkeys loving another monkey:)