Dear Baby

This will forever remain one of my most beloved children’s books. One year in highschool, I worked at a Head Start preschool for under-priviledged kids. We’d read a lot of books and sang a lot of songs - but keeping the attention of 12 squirming, energetic 3 year olds was always a challenge.

I remember the day I brought this book in for the class, I’ve never seen them sit so perfectly still in my life. All of their little eyes looking up at me, their tiny mouths open, legs crossed - listening  intently to every word of this incredibly sweet story.

Even at 17 the book struck something deep inside me - but now, eleven years later with this child growing inside me (whose beautiful heartbeat we got to hear again yesterday at my OBGYN appointment!) the words seem to resonant within every part of my being.

“I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be”

M

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