got love?

Today my "baby" started 1st grade. I dropped her off with the excuse I had to carry that heaping heavy bag of supplies in to her teacher, but we all know who had the hard time saying goodbye this morning ... and this year I actually did not cry as I drove away from the school, but instead I laughed, and laughed, and have laughed all day (insert giggle) when I thought of my sugar strutting through the mighty halls of elementary school trying to keep her britches up. My baby has no butt, no belly, just lots of leg!!!! As we entered the school together in a frenzy trying to find her classmates I'd say "you doing okay buddy?" as I'd look to my side and she'd reply with one hand on her waist band "yeah Momma I'm good". It was and still is the cutest image. But as I drove to work laughing & enjoying that image in my mind I was so aware of the love that consumes me for this person. And I didn't want to come to work today, I wanted to watch from a distance as she met her classmates, read a book, ate her lunch, found the potty, re-united with her K-garten teacher, put her cardigan in her new locker, got a drink from the water fountain, and waited anxiously for Mamaw to appear in car line. But the one thing that got me through this LONG day of waiting & wondering was her love. Isnt' that what we all want & need in life, someone to make us feel loved? And nothing/no one does it better than a sweet child. When every one else lets me down I know I can count on her to love me & appreciate me. I am so lucky to be loved by you ALM!