Sweet Life Journal
Happy Mother's Day ...
Years ago, writer Anne Lamott wrote a book about her son’s infancy, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year, a book that all new mothers might want to clutch to their chests. For Mother’s Day, we offer this passage:
“Sam sleeps for four hours at a stretch now, which is one of the main reasons I’ve decided to keep him. Also, he lies by himself on the bed staring and kicking and cooing for fifteen to twenty minutes at a time. I had these fears late at night when I was pregnant that I wouldn’t be able to really love him, that there’s something missing in me, that half the time I’d feel about him like he was a Pet Rock and half the time I’d be wishing I never had him. So there must have been some kind of a miracle.
“I never ever wish I hadn’t had him.”
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