"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."
Elizabeth Stone
Somehow I always had the feeling that being a mother was a couple decade experience, and somewhere along the road it would morph into a grandparent mode. I have no idea where I picked up this notion. Now having traveled down the road a little farther, for me motherhood gets more expansive as I watch my babies turn into adults and then to mothers and fathers in their own right.
No longer do I have to count to 3 to make sure I know where each child is...and that they are safe and cared for...I'm counting to 12. My heart is now walking around with my children, their spouses (my next set of children) and my grandchildren. Gracious sakes... can you see this continuing to multiply?
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