My Dearest Daughter

 To My Dearest Daughter,

There is so much I want to tell you,
about how you unfold my heart,
how it feels like the sea and the sky
never ending, how in the beginning
I held your small body inside mine
as you grew, I grew too, in ways I never knew
were possible, your heartbeat was mine,
and my love for you was like nothing
I could have ever imagined, and how
you came to be in my arms, and my arms
felt like the shore, holding your eternal
light, keeping you safe from any storm,
I want to tell you how you open my soul,
with everything that you do, each moment
that I spend with you is like the sunlight
and the moonshine, which I carry you

outside to see when it's brilliance
makes a halo that seems heavenly,
like you, my little sun, my little moon.

 

In preparation of grandpa Duke's arrival from across the yard, after a 3 weeks absence.

What Does Juna Do, One Month Shy of Two

"I did it!" one of Juna's favorite phrases,
she uses all day long, for all of the amazing things
she does each day of her 23 months!

She loves to hang on everything,
on bars, on cars, on mommy and daddy's arms,
even upside down, which makes mama say, "Yikes!"

She loves to jump, jump, jump and "RUN!"
especially wearing "Alex's shoes,"
and when there are puddles underfoot.

"What sound is that?" she asks,
with her hand over her ear, and when
she hears the rain, she sings, "Ran, Rain, Go way..."

She loves to feed the fish, and
swim like a fish in any kind of "wawee"
and play in the bubbles too.

She likes to do most things her "self"
like wash from head to toe, she scrubs
her tummy and her hands, and mama's too.

She sings her ABCs something like this,
"ABCEUNO..." and also "la la Elmo, la la Elmo"
and many other tunes.

She says "please,""thank you" and "sorry"
and almost all other things, she gives hugs and kisses,
and asks for them when she gets an "ouchie."

She goes poo-poo on the potty,
something she taught her self, "I did it!"
she says, as she flushes it down.

She is a regular dog-walker,
and wipes her face and says, "yuck"
when she gets kisses on her face.

She loves to feed grandpa's chickens,
right out of her hand, my brave little girl
who's growing and growing and growing away.

My Beautiful Daughter

I'm going to tell you that you're beautiful, because you are,
I'm going to tell you that you're smart, because you are,
I'm going to tell you that you're strong and brave and incredible!

I'm going to tell you that you're sweet, because you are,
I'm going to tell you that you are creative, because you are,
I'm going to tell you that you're fun and silly and lovely!

I'm going to tell you that you make me laugh, because you do,
I'm going to tell you that you make me smile, because you do,
I'm going to tell you that I believe in you, because I do!

I'm going to call you my baby, because you are,
I'm going to tell you that you are wonderful, because you are,
I'm going to tell you that you are something special always!

My Juna, 22 Months Old Today

There is love in each of your ten little toes,
and it flows right up to your cute little nose,
and on the crown of your head it makes a halo,
which shines on me when you smile,
And there is love in each of your ten fingers,
and it reaches with your arms right up to the sky,
I know why your magic always makes me sigh,
because there is love where ever my sweet Juna goes.

An Apology To Juna

I am SICK today, SICK to my stomach... SICK in my heart... sick of hatred, INEQUALITY, racism, sexism, sick of being let down by my government, sick of believing in my fellow man and being disappointed, sick of people believing they have the RIGHT to dictate the RIGHTS of others, because they are "believers" or white or men or rich or in positions of power, sick of the focus of my country being on war and greed, instead of education and "liberty and freedom for ALL," sick of thinking how I will answer questions from my daughter about why we, as a society, are so screwed up, why our CONSTITUTION is still a LIE, why people hate and bully each other, why she or her friends can't get married, why some follow a GOD who they believe doesn't believe in equal rights. I am sick of HOLDING MY TONGUE to be polite when some are shouting and yelling that what other people are doing just isn't right, how did we get this far away from our hearts?

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