A Letter to My Daughter
Dear Azure, It is hard to believe that tomorrow will be your 19th birthday! And though 19 years may seem a long time to some to me it feels like only yesterday that you came into our lives so small, frail, and quiet. It is a day that is forever etched into my mind and my heart. I can still see your tiny little eyes squinting against the glare of new light, feel your soft new born skin as the doctor placed you on my chest. And I still long for you. I long to hold you in my arms and kiss your tiny little brow and there are days my very soul aches for you. When I go out and see mothers with their daughters shopping or driving in the car next to me, I often wonder what our relationship would have been like. Would we have been close? Would you have enjoyed some of the same things I do? But I never ask if you would have grown up to be beautiful, because that I already know you would have been the most beautiful girl in the world, at least in my eyes. There are many times I think