13 May 2007

Happy Mother's Day



I woke up this morning with a pretty bad headache, the first in a long time. Katrina and I both slept late and then snuggled up on the couch watching "Lady and the Tramp II" on the Disney channel, while Jon went to church. Then Jon took Katrina to the Chuck E. Cheese-like place on base this afternoon. Tonight if I feel better we'll go out to eat, probably at the little Italian place here in Kindsbach.

I got flowers from Jon on Friday, and Katrina made a little vase with a rose at school. And it is enough. That little vase with its handwritten tag is pure joy.

For what seemed like such a long time, Mother's Day brought sadness and a sense of failure to me. Now it brings a profound gratefulness, and a wish to do better, to be more grateful for my beautiful, bright, kind, curious, imaginative, but sometimes difficult, little girl. And also? It brings wishes that time would just slow down a little, that I could replay moments in our lives together and keep them in vivid memory forever.

At lunch today, Katrina said she wanted a sister, and that we should ask God for one. And tears came to my eyes, and I thought of a blog post I read yesterday, and how well it captured the thoughts and emotions of those of us who have experienced infertility and motherhood:

"I look at his face and know that he is enough. He is more than enough. And yet because he is enough, more than enough, to fill my heart and life with such mind-boggling amounts of joy, I cannot help but wonder what it must be like to have that joy times two.

I cannot help but to take his face in my hands and cover it with kisses, while silently praying gimme baby. Please."




Yes, Katrina is enough. More than I dared hope for. But, oh, I wonder. I wonder.



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love this picture of K... brought me back to many, many hours spent playing in the "crick" down at the park and behind Mrs. Hixon's when I was not much older. If you print out any copies, I would love one...

Anonymous said...

I would also like a copy of this particular pic. It's great! Katrina seems really focused and not at all posing for the camera. So natural.

Jennifer said...

I'll try. Jon got me a photo printer for my birthday, but we haven't had the time to set it up yet.

That's at the Gartenschau (Dinosaur Park), by the way, at the end of April. It's been raining for a week now, so that picture reminds me that it WILL get nicer again!