SEPTEMBER 2025 Holding the Future in My Hands

There has been an untold amount of  anxiety in our world this week, different from the stressors I felt a decade ago as my world was both falling apart and growing exponentially.  This week, the one who first called me "Meme" turns the big 1-0. If this blog is still functioning and if they someday find this message, I hope they know how much I love them.

Honestly, I could not have imagined

How it would be before you arrived.

I was busy working, care-giving, 

Until, during a meeting about nothing 

The text said you were

About to rock my world.

He placed your tiny burrito wrapped self

Into my arms, so you could worm yourself

Right into my heart, as if 

You had always been there. 

I know at that moment

I was holding the future

In my hands, although

I could not imagine

The miracle of watching you grow.

I really have tried to 

Enjoy every minute, as they say,

It goes fast, like magic, 

The babe to be double-digits.

Those first snuggles giving way to

Hikes, beach days, Charlotte, 

Memories on the trail to

New chapters, grand adventures.

I cannot fathom how

Choices, decisions, dreams

Will merge, divide, grow

So I hold onto the memories

Nestled in my heart,

Watching, joyfully,

A future unfolding.