An Unexpected Journey

Dearest Makiah, I remember those first few days after you left us.     Time moved so excruciatingly slow.     We had never been apart more than a night or two.     Every second without you was swallowed up in missing you.     I couldn’t imagine how I was going to survive for years- a lifetime- until I was able to hold you again. And the tears and the minutes dripped by so painfully slow.     Now I can hardly believe it’s been 14 years!    When I look back it seems as if I stepped on a bullet train with the days and nights of diapers and hair bows and bedtime kisses from all your sisters whirring by in a blur.    It’s so different now with all 4 of your sisters in the double digits.    Some people dread the teen years, but I am loving middle school mom life!    We share movies and cookies and all the late nights I will let them have.    They love to come on early morning mommy dates for fa...