Isn't This Beautiful

This was written by an AustinMaMa embarking on an incredible journey very shortly-I love her words to her children.



We're standing on a cusp right now, looking forward to the journey of a lifetime.
Someday, much sooner that I can imagine, you will be grown...leaving for journeys of your own, and we will be looking back to this one.

My sweet babies, I want you to know that you are my raison d'etre.
It is all for you.
Sometimes I feel as though I could dissolve into nothing more than the love I feel for you. My heart swells with such power at your smiles, joy, tears, questions....
I survive on your happiness, wonderment and beautiful presence.

It's all for you. When I have dreams of the future, they're always of you...saucer-wide eyes staring up at the redwoods, squeals of delight bouncing across the cold water of a creek, hushed whispering questions while fingers point in a museum...warm, toasty bodies snuggling up for one more chapter...pleeease.

Each time I step outside my box, in the face of misunderstanding eyes, to inquire about the chickens these eggs came from...."they're for my children...I just have to ask..."
Each time I stand up for our rights...hoping that you'll understand that you can too...

My heart beats in time with yours and I know that your's is in time with mine. When I seek joy for myself it is also to seek joy for you...to show you that there is something more to this life...that you can be as full of wonder, peace and happiness as an adult, as you are as a child.
I hope to lead you, seamlessly, and whole, into your future and the place from which you will soar...high above, but always, always in my heart.

I hope that when all is said and done, and I am but a memory to you, that I will exist within you as the knowledge of love.

I love you.
Always.