Hanna

God blessed me with 2 sons and then a daughter. Its amazing how different they all are, and my relationship with each one. But girls are so different from boys. And there is just an amazing connection or bond between a mother and daughter. Hanna and I spend a lot of time together. We go shopping together, she comes with me to appointments, we hang out and watch tv together, play games together, color together, just all kinds of things. When we are at home, she will play in her room for a while, but she will come out and check to see where I am or what I am doing. If we are watching tv, she has some body part touching me or laying on me (she is very affectionate). If I leave her at home when I go somewhere, (with Sean or Derek, of course) she will call me several times to ask what I am doing, when I am coming home, or just to tell me she loves me. She is always drawing me pictures or writing me notes. When she gets into trouble, she may run to her room crying, but she will come out a little later and apologize. She is good at cleaning up after herself. She keeps her room picked up. If she gets stuff out to play, she puts it back up when she is done. If I ask her to do something, she usually does it right then. She seems to like to be around me alot. And right now as I am typing this in my bedroom, she has brought crayons and a coloring book in here to be near me. She tries to take care of me when I am sick, and sometimes she will just do things out of the blue. For instance the other night Hanna and I went to Walmart to buy groceries. She ended up having to push a cart too because I bought so much. We got home and unloaded it all, with the help of Sean and Christopher, and Derek called to be picked up from work. We got all of the refrigerator and freezer stuff put up and I told her to start getting ready for bed while I picked up Derek. When I got home she had put up all the rest of the groceries and got ready for bed. All by herself. Sean didn't help her. I was so proud.

I have a pretty good relationship with my boys, but not like I do with Hanna, and it isn't from a lack of trying. I love them all equally, but that bond between a mother and her daughter or daughters is something that cannot really be explained, its just there. I thank God everyday for my children. Being a parent is by far the most rewarding thing I have done in this life.