MY BABY IS 17 TODAY!

It's hard to believe that it's been 17 yrs already. Looking back at moments in time seem so fast and fleating like the blink of an eye. Other times seem eons ago. The paradox of time does that to our brain as we look at lifetimes and moments in a thought.

I look at my daughter Cleo and see a young women blooming with promise and future. As difficult as this passage in adolesence has often been for us all...there have also been many terrific moments of laughter, closeness and growing.

I glimse so many layers of the chrysalis peal away as she becomes a woman... seeing her learn hard lessons, feel different sorts of love, is lifted by new enlightenments. All this while still being the little girl inside that we so loath at that age and stive to maintain when we get older.

I am filled with the deep love of a mother as I look at the beauty that is my daughter....I love who she is and who she is becoming....I look forward to watching the paths she takes...the choices she makes...good and bad..We have all been there and hopefully learned from the lessons we took away with us.

I will also always see the little girl inside the woman. I will always cherish the memories of her at my breast..her asking a million questions when she was a toddler and her still present silliness when she is at her best.

Je t'aime ma belle coquotte...avec tout mon coeur....0x0x ta Maman.

BONNE FÊTE MA BELLE!!!!!!