The love, the unimaginable and colossal love between a mother and her first born: no one or nothing can quiet prepare you for that. A decade ago I was a young, new mom. Struggling (maybe even failing or at least feeling like i was failing) to stay awake and keep you alive, thriving and happy. Now, almost 10 years later,10 wondrous and love-filled years later, I am a mum to a confident, lovable, honest and a funny tween. Ten years of so many firsts and every year has thrown me by surprise. Raising you has been a wildly beautiful gift from the heavens above but more than that it has set me out on my path of self discovery too. I discovered motherhood and along with that I truly discovered myself. Starting this year, the next few years will be unsettling to you. After all, you will be colliding head on with adolescence. It is not going to easy my darling, not for you and definitely not for me. But I pray, the love we have in our family, the true strings of
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