Sunday, May 10, 2009

The phases of...

of motherhood.

Women know the way to rear up children (to be just)


They know a simple, merry, tender knack


Of tying sashes, fitting baby shoes,


And stringing pretty words that make no sense,


And kissing full sense into empty words.


~Elizabeth Barrett Browning



Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child.
They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean?
In my heart it don't mean a thing.
~Toni Morrison, Beloved, 1987
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I have been blessed in both.

3 comments:

Melly said...

Happy Mothers Day to you!! I hope your day is filled with love and beauty :)
Melly:)

Old Centennial Farmhouse said...

Happy Mother's Day! I hope it was sweet!
XOXO
Joni

Salmagundi said...

Toni Morrison has it right! They never grow up in our hearts. Hope your mother's day was special. Sally