I was twenty-one when I first became a mother and that was twenty-one years ago today.
I look back on that day…and I look back on the last twenty-one years and I am grateful.
I am grateful for this path of Motherhood that in many ways was hoisted upon me but which, in the end, has cracked my heart open and taught me to love in ways I did not know were possible.
Today is San’s 21st birthday but we also bid farewell to him this week as he spreads his wings to fly off to Dubai for work.
This is a whole new stretching of the Mother heart and as hard as it is to have him move so far from home, I am grateful for the opportunity to further embrace what it means to love.
And today I very simply honour this very precious birth day.
I honour the young woman who became a mother today 21 years ago.
I honour the little boy who has grown into a beautiful and gentle young man today.
And I honour myself today, with the greyer hair, the love I have loved, the expanded heart, the tears that have come with that and the extra laugh lines on my face.
Happy birth day ??
