Toddler Tuesday

"What, Mom?" or "The Calm Before the Storm"

Thank heaven for little girls. For little girls get bigger every day....I sometimes cannot believe that I---ME!---have a 2 year old daughter. This never ceases to amaze me. There are days where I wonder if I could ever love something or someone else as much as I love her. Then, honestly, there are other days where I wonder if there will ever come a day when I will get to enjoy myself with wild abandon like I did in the days when I didn't wear the label of "Mommy". On those days--and they are few and far between---I look at this picture and see that my little girl, my baby, will grow up all too soon and that I should cherish these moments of young motherhood.

There will come a day when she will not want to raid my closet and abhors absolutely everything I wear. There will come a day when she will drive off into the sunset on a date with the boy she swears she'll marry (no matter how much her father protests that she will NEVER date). There will come a day when she beams with pride at the fact that she conquered her very own obstacles and follows her own dreams. Finally, there will come a day when she will truly understand what it means to walk in her mother's shoes, and OH how I will relish that day! The day her very own little Beastie rips through her closet, tornadoes across the house, all objects within reach being flung behind her with wild abandon, as she uses her Easter basket grass as confetti and screams at the top of her lungs: "NO MAMA! NO MAMA! BACK UP!"