This mommy's prayer

Thank you for sending me an angel and allowing me to call her "daughter".

Thank you for the best OB in the whole world who wanted me to have a healthy baby as much as I wanted to and for sending her into my life just when I needed her.

Thank you for E's glowing smile, contagious laugh, bouncy walk and curious nature. Thank you for hugs, kisses and high fives.

Please let her grow up to be strong and confident and passionate about life and things that thrill her.

Please let me be the kind of mom that she will be proud to acknowledge as hers and help me not to put my insecurities on her.

Please let her grow to love this new baby and this new baby to love her. May they grow old together and laugh remembering how much fun we had as a family when they tell stories of us to their own grandchildren.

Thank you for allowing me to be a mom and for the miracle of life inside me.