Today I turn 3 1/2 years old!

It's another milestone! My little girl turns exactly 3.5 years old today! Once the size of a pinhead in my womb, this tyke has grown into somebody who is able to correct, rebuke and bicker at me! Rynae has grown much over the 3.5 years that portability is an issue now. It seems that clothes that fitted her one day could hardly cover her belly the next. Formerly a tiny thing that can hardly fill her cot, she now has outgrown it and snuggles on a big-sized mattress every night. Looking back, I couldn't help missing the times when she was a baby. Rynae will be turning 4 in half a year's time and in no time to come, I'll be loosing her to another man. Like all parents, all I wish for is for her to grow up healthily, happily, showered with lots of luck and always in favour of people.

A Mother's Prayer
Help me dear Lord, as a mother, I pray
And bless these hands folded in prayer today;
May they be ever strong as they guide, as they teach,
Beings never too far for a child to reach.
May they never, with selfishness, try to dissuade,
Nor too quickly punish, nor too slowly aid.
May they point out the pleasures in laughter and song,
And may they show, wisely, the right from the wrong,
So that one day I'll know that I've helped all I can
To make her a woman, to make him a man.
- Mary A. Loberg