Mother-Daughter Relationships

It seems that I cannot shut my brain off these days. I try my hardest to do so but it just doesn't happen very often. Everyone tells me to sleep when Nora sleeps but as I sit here watching her on the video screen I am awake. I am writing out my thoughts instead. 

Nora is now 9 weeks old. I cannot believe where the time has gone. I feel as if each days slips by faster and faster. Even though she is small I can't help but feel this amazing connection with her. If someone else is holding her she is looking for me and listening for my voice. Her smiles are so precious that they make my heart skip a little beat each time I see one. (Which is becoming more often!) This feeling and some things I have witnessed over the past few days have made me want to write about mother/daughter relationships. 

I have a wonderful relationship with my mom and she is one of my best friends. We talk multiple times a day and she is a person that I strive to be on many levels. She works hard to support and love her family. I want to be this way for Nora as her and I both grow in this new relationship/friendship. My mom and I have of course had our ups and downs (which is normal for any teenage girl and her mother) but in time I have seen that all she did was for a reason: and that reason is ME. To help me become the wife, mother, sister, friend and person I am today. I so badly want this journey with Nora to turn out this way. I know we will have ups and downs but it is for her best interest that they will happen. I lay awake at night and watch her and think: How will we be when she grows up? Will she be proud that I am her mom? Will she trust that she can come to me with her problems and talk about them with me? Will we enjoy doing things together when she becomes a teenager?

My promise to her: that everyday I will show her love, respect, and care for her to the best of my ability. That she will know that she is loved and beautiful always. That she can trust in me and confide in me whenever she needs.