Motherhood: Getting to the Point

When I think of my life in its entirety,
 I see it as sort of an arrow--

with my birth being one end and the point being the future.

An arrow time line.

The BC on the birth end standing for Being a Child

and the AD for Adult in Development.

Moving on towards the point

the BC now stands for Before Children

and the AD for After Delivery......

....to my heart, the hospital, my doorstep.

My life.

From the time I was a very little girl

I knew that I wanted to be a mother.

My mom kept a little book for me

called My School Years

and every year, from kindergarten through

sixth grade, I checked which profession

I dreamed of having.  Included in this

list of choices was Mother.

I always checked that one.

Even when I checked the other boxes.

I laugh now when I look at the

 professional choices 

it offered to girls.

 But I also like the validation

that this little book from the late '60's gave

to the job of motherhood.

It's a profession.

Little did I know when I checked Mother in my 

book, innocent and shining and looking toward

the point of the arrow, that attaining that vocation would

require heartbreak, prayer, modern science

and fortitude.

It was nearly four years from the time that

we hoped to become parents until AD ~

After Delivery......

When my baby girl, the heart of my heart,

was placed in my arms.

Oh how I have loved my profession!

She is now navigating her own timeline,

somewhere between Being a Child and

Adult in Development.

I have a School Days book for her, too.

{Although creative soul that she is

she prefers creating her own

scrapbook....}

These days there are no boxes to check.

You write in your own dreams.

In addition to artist,

I hope that she will also write.....

Mother.

Happy Mother's Day

to everyone who has a mother

or has ever been one....

to a child, a pet, a friend.

And Mom:  I love you!




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