my amazing girl

Chloe said her ABCs today.  Beginning to end with no help and no mistakes.  I cried.  That girl is growing by leaps and bounds right before my very eyes, and I feel so priveledged to be the one to witness as she becomes this little person who is intelligent and bright and beautiful and everything I could have ever thought to hope for in a daughter. 

I can’t help but imagine the kind of young woman she will be at sixteen, at twenty, at twenty-five.  She has the power in her to conquer the world; I can see it in her eyes, feel it rolling off of her like a laugh.  She is pure energy, and she is going to do amazing, great, wonderful things in this world, I have no doubt.

There’s no higher honor in this universe for me than to be the guiding hand that helps her along her way.

How in the world could I have ever thought I didn’t want children?