5 Minute Friday: Tender

Apparently 5 Minute Friday is the only thing that this bloggin' mama has anytime for these days. Between nursing, diaper changes and wide eyed baby time I'm sliding in here to write my heart out without caring if it is right. Join up with all of us and The Gypsy Mama for your own 5 Minutes!

Topic: Tender

GO! 

We've had a mild winter with barely a sign of a hard freeze in sight. Today is almost Spring-like with sun so bright the glint brings a hand to my eyes. My heart has stayed warm this winter. It has been warm with new life and a light that is filling up my everyday even from the inside of this four walled home. From inside these walls an unfurling of girlhood and womanhood has found itself growing and intertwining itself like the sweetest of Spring buds.

I'm finished growing you in my belly, but the growth of you in my heart has only begun.

You have brought a tenderness to my touch and heart that I only remember through the eyes of my 12 year old girl heart. The heart that laid her head against her own mother's chest and breathed tenderness in. I slip my arms under your tiny, bobbling head and I pause with wonder. You need so much and my hands and arms seem so weak to give all. I lift you to my chest. I exhale tenderness straight from my lungs and hope that it wraps itself around your heart, hope it finds a girl heart eager to receive what little my hopeful-new-mama heart has to give.


STOP!