The best thing my child has ever said to me:

A: "Momma?"

"Yes?"


A: "Do you know what I want to be when I get bigger?"


"Do you mean besides the things you've told me before, like a butterfly, a fire-girl, a doctor, a nurse, a chef, a dentist, a Friendly's hot-dog cooker, and a mermaid??"


A: "Yeah Momma....more than all of those things, I have decided just what I want to be the most... a good Mommy like you, because you are the best Momma in the whole wide Earth."


Literally...my eyes welled up with tears and I felt so incredibly proud. So happy, so humbled. That one sentimental little conversation between my four-year-old and me made every single sleepless night...every single acid reflux-induced projectile vomit session when she was tiny...every single bed-wetting episode, every single time-out session, every single tear shed over the past four years-- ALL OF IT-- so incredibly worth it.

Thank you Aves for the smile that you brought to my heart today  :-)

XoXo,

Momma