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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 652243" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>True. The hardest thing is to live with ourselves when we have not given money or a ride or our time or a place to live or food. Especially when we have enough, and more than enough. Especially when the happiness and stability of our children's lives truly powered the beat of our own hearts. (Not to be too dramatic here, but purplish prose sometimes turns out to be the only way to describe such a powerful thing as mother love.) </p><p></p><p>I have never loved the way I love my children. There has never been joy that begins to compare to the simplest things having to do with my children. The way the sun shone into the room when they were babies, the strength in them as they grew ~ watching their senses of humor develop!!!</p><p></p><p>:O)</p><p></p><p>Remember those first little jokes they would tell? </p><p></p><p>Ha!</p><p></p><p>To wonder at the intelligence and vocabulary and appearance of these people who were growing up and up, taller than me, now.</p><p></p><p>And then, I lost them.</p><p></p><p>So the battle is how to love what is.</p><p></p><p>How to face what is.</p><p></p><p>How to trust myself, because I still feel a measure of responsibility. Not the full weight of it, as I did when they were the age your child is, now.</p><p></p><p>It is a very hard thing.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 652243, member: 17461"] True. The hardest thing is to live with ourselves when we have not given money or a ride or our time or a place to live or food. Especially when we have enough, and more than enough. Especially when the happiness and stability of our children's lives truly powered the beat of our own hearts. (Not to be too dramatic here, but purplish prose sometimes turns out to be the only way to describe such a powerful thing as mother love.) I have never loved the way I love my children. There has never been joy that begins to compare to the simplest things having to do with my children. The way the sun shone into the room when they were babies, the strength in them as they grew ~ watching their senses of humor develop!!! :O) Remember those first little jokes they would tell? Ha! To wonder at the intelligence and vocabulary and appearance of these people who were growing up and up, taller than me, now. And then, I lost them. So the battle is how to love what is. How to face what is. How to trust myself, because I still feel a measure of responsibility. Not the full weight of it, as I did when they were the age your child is, now. It is a very hard thing. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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