Mom and Daughter days...

I've been a mom now for 18 months and I have loved every day of it...especially the mornings. I absolutely love getting Bug out of bed. She is too cute with her wild hair in the mornings and her anticipation and giggling with glee that mommy is singing as she walks through the living room to come and get her out of bed. I sing the same "Good Morning" song that my mom sang to A and I as we were growing up...of course my mom varied it also with crowing like a rooster once in awhile...which she still does from time to time when you call her on the phone in the morning...I love my mom. Bug gives me this overwhelming sense of pride that I am doing something more worth while than any paycheck or power-suit or 6-figure salary could do for me. She lets me know that I am making her feel like the most loved and adored little girl in the mornings in the whole world....and to me she is.

When I was growing up my mom and I would have mom and daughter days. Which consisted of just the two of us...lunch, shopping, sometimes a chick flick...and I would feel really big if we went and had coffee..ooh la-la. I have already started mom and daughter days seeing as it's just me and Bug all the time, but I have so much fun pushing her around in the stroller and stopping for coffee and it being just she and I us just being together. I really dreamed of the day I would become a mother, and I cherish every day of being her mom. There are tough days, yes, many. When Bug was diagnosed in August we didn't have a good prognosis, and we had to face the prospect of losing her, that still eats at me even today when I'm sitting here looking at her playing on the floor. Jesus listened to a mother's cries once again...he had listened to me ask Him for this child for 5 years, and He was listening to the plea to save her...and He did. It wasn't overnight and it wasn't instantly...but He did. My daughter is mine and my husbands world. Our marriage comes first, like it should...but Bug is so amazing to us....sometimes we keep her up at night because we just don't want her to go to bed.

She has therapy today...but afterwards I think we are going to go have a mom and daughter day out shopping maybe. At least coffee... ooh la-la

Much love,
~K