Five Things I Love About Being a Mom

1. 4:00 am feedings. The only people awake on the planet are the two of you in the still of the night.
2. Year after year, the pictures on the front porch as they set out on their first day of school and the way the spruce tree in the picture gets bigger and bigger as the years go by.
3. Visiting the 6'++ son in first year residence and having a big swinging hug right there in the lobby in front of his friends.
4. Having the world-traveling daughter return home after two years and need some good old-fashioned Mommy-love.
5. Waking up each morning knowing you have given two wonderful new people to the universe.