I will always be there

Why does it always have to be that you have to make choices? Wouldn't it be a lot easier if we could just know what lies ahead of us and had no worries about our future? I know, I know, life doesn't really work that way.

At the start of a new school year for my own kids it's always a bit sad for me. We rush around to get everything, the night before we are still marking our stationary and packing all our stuff away (you all know about my little problem with procrastination). They have to eat, take a bath, rush to bed .... And now? What happens next? We never had that important talk - the one where I tell them that no matter what happens, no matter what they do I will always love them. I didn't get to tell them that perhaps this year will not be as great as they hope it will be, maybe they'll have problems with teachers, sometimes their friends will change and another person will be more important to that friend.

If I could pave the road for them I would. I would fight every battle, sooth every heartache, take away every broken heart, do everything in my power so that they have the most wonderful experience in their lives. The really sad part is I can't. I'll be on the sidelines cheering, looking on and knowing that sometimes there will be hurt that they don't want to share with me. I can only stand quietly and help when asked, even though I have a physical pain in my heart every time I see them suffer. They will have to make their own choices, some good others not so good. They'll have to choose between friends, doing the right thing or just doing what everyone else does.

I wish for them a life full of laughter, a heart that knows only sunshine and happiness. I hope that they get up every morning with joy, that they never get to know the ugliness of the human nature, that they always believe in the good of everybody.

Above all, I want them to know that I am their mother, I am always on their side, I will fight with them and I will fight for them. I will love them to the end of time.

May all our children have the best possible year, and may the stars in their eyes never die ;-)