Beautiful Girl

To you, dearest love.
You bring me so much joy! Your smile fills my whole chest with happiness and brings me to tears. You, of course, are oblivious to my sublime moments, when the world, it seems to me, is SO so very small. You just look up at your favorite old friend, Mr. Ceiling Fan, spinning merrily away. These are the moments when our planet, with you and me, is the only one that matters.

As I sit here on the couch, watching the unprompted cuteness that you exude, just in the simple act of waking up... I stare into your eyes while you beam your smile. You have certainly learned your first truth- you know that you are loved.

How many early mornings have passed by blissfully, devoted entirely to staring into your sweet face.. moments that you will never remember.. but will always know have occurred. How many mornings did my own mother do the very same thing with me?

My greatest wish for you is that I fill your world with as much magic, love, and joy as your grandma has for mine. Some day I will tell you about my mother- your grandma Hatch. Ruby, if the bond between you and me is as strong as the bond between me and your grandma, then I will have done my job in teaching you how to love.

Only when you become a mother do you realize how very much, how very purely and deeply, that love can exist. Love without consequences, Love without judgement, Love with true forgiveness. No one in the world can understand every nuance, every unsaid word, every look, every gesture, like her. No one else in the world.