Hi Mom! It's me again!! I feel much better. Perhaps your first advice should be, if it's 1:30 in the morning, and you are sad, it could just be because it's 1:30 in the morning. I woke up this morning in my warm bed to the smell of oatmeal and "Let it Snow" running through my head and Jesse running in to give me a hug and sparkly blue nail-polish on my fingers. Then I played Christmas hymns on the piano for a while. All better! Also, Jesse has pink eye so he can't go to school which means we can stay at home in our pajamas ALL day (again). So go back to your writing and your Relief-Societying and your students and all the other people pulling you in a million directions knowing you have one less
kid adult to worry about!
Dear beautiful, happy adult daughter:
ReplyDeleteYes, I am busy with students and all manner of other things in my life, but you and your brothers and sisters will always be the most important part of my life. I know it's hard to tell sometimes - I'm sorry.
It is important to discover and develop your talents, but it is even more important to wake up in the morning and be there to be hugged by your son. It is way more important to play Christmas music with glittery blue fingers and dance around Christmas trees. It is enormously more important to be a mom that loves staying home with her babies wearing pyjamas all day.
You will have time for talents. Right now you are doing the most creative work of all - building a happy family. You are developing the most precious and eternal kind of charity, the kind that devotes itself to the nurturing and happiness of a child.
I love you and couldn't be prouder of you.
I'll try not to be so busy in the future that you have to talk to me over your blog.