The daughter crawled into my lap and demanded cookies. You see, she is like that some times. And I gave into her demands. Sometimes I am like that....
Its a balancing act on my part.
As a parent, I live in fear of the day that she no longer will do that....
When hanging out with friends, being on the phone, going away to school, all those thing that I (and others) have been preparing her for at last become real.
Already there is new and fantastic worlds opening up to her, and luckily I have been able to show her some of them.
But soon she will start to find her own way, her own paths to follow....
And I will be somewhere behind....
Don't get me wrong, this is what I want for her. To be her own person and to go out into the world, changing it as she goes.
I just want the promise that there will still be days that I can hold you,
and get you your cookies....
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