Happy Mother's Day!

The sun is shining, even through the clouds! Today is a day where we celebrate and give thanks for the women who bore us into the world, through nine months of pregnancy  hell  er, bliss, and raised us into the beautiful people we are today. Despite all of the terrible two fits, the downright ugly teens, they still love us, and I for one am very very grateful for that.

Here is a little poem for all of you mom's out there, and if you have young children, imagine them older and (hopefully!) wiser! Have a beautifully wonderful mothers day.

Before I was myself you made me, me
With love and patience, discipline and tears,
Then bit by bit stepped back to set me free,

Allowing me to sail upon my sea,
Though well within the headlands of your fears.
Before I was myself you made me, me


With dreams enough of what I was to be
And hopes that would be sculpted by the years,
Then bit by bit stepped back to set me free,


Relinquishing your powers gradually
To let me shape myself among my peers.
Before I was myself you made me, me,


And being good and wise, you gracefully
As dancers when the last sweet cadence nears
Bit by bit stepped back to set me free.


For love inspires learning naturally:
The mind assents to what the heart reveres.
And so it was through love you made me, me
By slowly stepping back to set me free.