Motherhood

So I recently order this book from Amazon and it arrived yesterday.  I read all 83 pages yesterday while the kids were napping and I was so moved.  I reread it again after the kids went to bed last night.  Yup....I read it twice in one day.  It is a quick read.  The book is written as a letter to Corrigans young children.  "No matter when and why this comes to your hands, I want to put down on paper how things started with us."  I wish I was a better writter....not the spelling and the grammar but the writting.......I wish I could write about motherhood with outsounding sappy.  While reading Corrigan's book my whole body felt what she was saying....my heart was heavy with understanding.  I recommed this book to all moms.  Go get it and devour it now.

Two of my favorite passages from the text:

"I heard once that the average person barely knows ten stories from childhood and those are based more on photographys and retellings than memory.  So even with all the videos we take, the wo boxes of snapshots under my desk and the 1276 photos in folders on the computer, you'll be lucky to end up with a dozen stories.  You won't remember how it started with us, the things that you don't even know about yourself.  We won't come back here."

Lovely.....right?

And then this one:

"That means that in addition to possibly wrecking you.  I have the chance to give you what was given to me: a decent childhood, more good memories than bad, some values, a sense of tribe, a run at happiness."

Perfect.

Husband laughed at me as I underlined almost the whole book.

Go now and read this book.

On a seperate note.....a quick story about A....yesterday we (A & I) drove by a small cemetary.  She shouted : "Mommy, look at all those pretty things."

I love looking at life with three year old eyes....the cemetary sculptures (AKA headstones) look pretty amazing.

And a G story......my mom and dad are taking about buying a new car.  I told the kids about their shopping list and G shouted , "Oh, mommy......maybe they'll buy a garbage truck! Yipee."