For You

I watch you sleep and want to kiss you.

Your face is the same and yet it looks so much older.

The years have passed, I can see them on you.

Oh, how I still love you!

Our teenage love has blossomed to more than words can say.

My life with you has been a whirlwind.

Love!

Passion!

Friendship!

Even Hate!

But as you sleep here next to me I still know that I love you.

You are the one that gives me air.

You are the one that calms my storm.

You are the one that I love!

Embracing My Climb

Being a mom is my full time job but there are times in my life that I think about the what ifs. Life in general is a constant battle with oneself and others around you. A family is layered with multiple personalities, problems, triumphs, sadness, struggles and at times chaotic. I want to just give up and run away where I can just be the woman in my what ifs!

Then remorse sets in and I comprehend that no one can Love my family like I do! No one can tend to them like I do. I realize that I am wife and mother to this family.

So, the other day my children and I watched the Hannah Montana movie and that song The Climb resonated in my heart. Sometimes you get a reality check from the least expected source but it is always at the right timing!

That is why I know that it should not be about what is waiting for me on the other side but on how I climb my mountain. I have to embrace myself, my motherhood, my life!