My motivation, my purpose, my joy, my love....my girl.

Happy Girl....especially happy to have the treat
she greatly earned this week
(No more pacifier, sleeping in her big girl bed,
potty training like a PRO, and preschool in one week!)

The end of summer and beginning of September has made for some long, hot "DC girls quality time" days together.  Pools and hot tubs and walks and parks and bike rides and ice cream and dancing.  Even one rainy day gum boot, umbrellas, mud puddles, firemen, fire trucks and Starbucks "latte date" with each other; she truly is the best date ever and the absolute LOVE of my life.

She reminds me every day how to appreciate the simple, little things in life. She makes me smile, she makes me giggle like a child, and she has taught me what "unconditional love" is on a daily basis from the minute we I created her, grew her, birthed her, and now raise her.  Who else would look at me first thing in the morning and say, "Good Morning PRINCESS MAMA.." to which I immediately smile hugely upon opening my eyes (no matter how ridiculously early it may be) and say, "Good Morning PRINCESS ANABELLA...I love you". Can't really think of a better way to start my day. Can you?!  If you say yes, then you're clearly not a parent yet...

Anabella starts preschool three full days in about a week....1 week away.  My baby  little girl who has never spent a moment away from me (aside from her couple days a week with her father in recent months) is now going to be away from me 3 full days a week and potentially 5 when I go back to work.  I burst into tears in the bath tub this morning just thinking about it, I can't even imagine how hard it's actually going to be being away from her. Ugh...

I'm going to appreciate every day I have with her. I'm going to cherish her and love her like I always do and know that we both have what it takes to make this situation the best that it can be.  She will LOVE school...I think....I hope...I need to believe.  She does love our new home. She does love her new bedroom. She does love our life.  I just need to believe she's going to adjust as easily to being away from her parents 3 full days a week as easily as she has adjusted to everything else crazy and life changing that has happened in her life the past 6 months!  I think I might have the most well adjusted child ever born, and I don't know if that's a gift she was born and blessed with or something I can take partial credit for...but I'm grateful for it none the less.

God Bless ANABELLA APRIL GRACIE DC....my reason for being born, my motivation, my purpose, my joy, my love, my girl.

The absolute love of my life "lovingly" admiring
her own shadow yet again...

Hmmm...my girl likes a ROCK on her finger too....ha I kid.

My reason for being born....
my motivation, my purpose, my joy, my love...
MY GIRL.

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