Happy Birthday My Blue Eyed Baby

Every morning the man you love makes you tea, toast and lunch,
then walks you to the bus.
Everyday I am so grateful you are loved
the way I always wished you'd be!

 

Happy Birthday Blue Eyed Baby

Blue eyed baby

Born pensive and deep

An interested child with

An aversion to sleep

Blue eyed toddler

Asked questions galore

Some so obscure

hard to ignore

Blue eyed child

Athletically impaired

Your feminine scamper

Garnered a stare

Blue eyed youngster

With a mind of your own

Loving patterns and puzzles

And the Spiritual unknown

Blue eyed adolescent

So innocent and pure

Unique in your essence

Those days are a blur

Blue eyed teen

Responsible and alert

Not one day of worry

Yet I prepared to be hurt

Blue eyed young lady

A beauty inside and out

Proud mother am I

That you’re so devout

Blue eyed woman

Independent and strong

Savvy and sassy

Knowing where you belong!

My Dearest Blue eyed baby!

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Sometimes I feel like a character in the Robert Munsch book “ Love you forever.” Roles are reversing. Seems I often need you more than you need me. Oh sure I still make meals and drive you around, I’m there to listen with my wisdom in tact. The aprons strings have become thread bare, wearing away with each independent flight you take to different lands. Each problem you solve on your own and each adventure I don’t share. Ultimately this is what a mother wants for her child. It’s been a smooth transition, with very few rifts, lots of respect and many laughs along the way.

I always had a dream for you. One of happiness, love and success where ever your heart leads! I also hoped to give you more than I had as a child. In some ways that manifested, but I made more mistakes along the way than you ever did. Even now I am assessing those, wishing I could turn back time.

Always know there is not one moment of you and me time I regret. You have NEVER disappointed me. Even though I am a very maternal parent, you have missed out, and I really have learned more from you than you could have ever learned from me!

In you I see the best parts of all those I’ve loved. My labored relationship with my mother is better understood, while watching your attributes develop into an innovative, respected business person with amazing fiscal sense. I see persistence to make things happen, and repair injustices. Like my brother you set goals and accomplish them. Working around any adversity……(like driving), that’s where I come in!

I love your environmental responsibility and need to live clean. I love that you take public transit even though the universe is telling you to get your license by sending a bird to poop on your head at the bus stop! I love that despite being a very capable business person, you can laugh when you slip on the ice trying to avoid the birds at the bus stop.

I see my feisty youthful self in you. I remember it’s not always popular to be that way, but it’s distinct, authentic and attracts good people to you!

I know I don’t tell you enough how special you are, and I’m sure my blog friends are sick to death of reading posts I write about you! But I need you to know how lucky I feel having such a special daughter in my life. I feel incredibly blessed at how loyal, and generous you are with me, even though I put “THE” in front of almost everywhere I go, a blatant sign that I have aged.

I remember so much laughter between us! We still have our moments, but they’re less now. I can’t make you giggle like I used to with my silly antics. Instead I’m becoming an eccentric old lady, slightly embarrassing at times. I didn’t start out thinking my life would be as it is. I wish I’d had more goals earlier. Instead I chased the dollar. For a time it was enough…we all know life intervened on that. Like you, I feel this is our year ….. Even though the world is full of doom and gloom, our home is the biggest conduit for creativity….Success is right around the corner. Happy Birthday darling!!! I wish I had more to give you! A trip to Paris or London, a new coat, pair of fluevog boots!

Thankfully you have all the resources to strive for those things yourself, and a wonderful man who absolutely adores you and would give you the world! May all the rest of your dreams come true!

"I'll love you forever,

I'll like you for always,

as long as I'm living

my baby you'll be." Robert Munsch

Love you forever

Mommy!

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