Mother’s Day

First for me as a mom
First for Chuck’s mom as a grandma

A week long visit
Pedicures
Cards and gifts, calls and texts
Grocery shopping alone
Quiche and sweet potatoes
A long walk around Townlake
The sweetest baby girl
Gelato for dessert
Lots of pictures...

And a poem for all you mothers and daughters
(courtesy of a card Nancy sent me after Aurora was born)

Someday…

Someday, she’ll be a famous pianist
Or a high school science teacher.
She’ll settle down, marry, have a couple of kids.
Maybe she won’t.
Someday, she’ll help millions of people
All over the world.
Or maybe she’ll travel to Africa
Or phone you from Rome.
Someday, she’ll be a strong,
Confident woman…
But you’ll always remember
The first time
You held her in your arms.
Someday, she’ll have
Her own hopes and dreams,
Not knowing that once upon
A quiet time, you closed your eyes
And dreamed
To have her in your life.