Tonight we were looking through baby pictures...and I was amazed, yet again, at how my little girls have grown up. Each into their own person, in some ways so very different, and in others so very much alike. I want always to keep them close, to keep them right here. But that is not the way life is supposed to go...that is not how it is supposed to be. All this time, my job has been to raise them to eventually live their own lives....so with some regret...with a large measure of hesitation....I untie the apron strings...and let them fly in the wind. But I keep that garment on, with those ties ready to be grasped when the winds are rough and one of my babies needs to hold on for a bit before trying their wings once again.
"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires."
~ Dorothy Parker
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