Love and listen to your children ❤

My daughter asked me to teach her how to shave her legs last week. I was over the moon to have this experience together with her. ❤ This moment was so important to me because sadly, I did not get the same relationship growing up with my mother.. I learned how to handle my period by my best friend. I always snuck my mothers razor to shave while I lived with her. There were a lot of dark spots in my life where I felt embarrassed or like I had to be sneaky about my coming of age experiences. Sneaking makeup, deodorant, shoes, clothes..razors... Emory will be 13 soon, and though she isnt interested in boys or looking "sexy" she says she does not like her bushy legs and feels like a boy. That was enough for me after sitting and talking with her :) we made a girls night of it, and did bath bombs, face and hair care. I am so happy that she felt so comfortable with me to express herself and ask for my help with something so personal. As a mom I know I have messed up at times, and I am so incredibly blessed to have found the right path before it was too late, and to have not lost my children's trust and faith in me throughout our crazy lives. I am so blessed to have had this moment with my daughter, and want to remind everyone to cherish the little things, these little times with your child imprint on them in such strong ways, just as my lack of these times has an does still impact me. We can mess up sometimes, we all do and have. Coming from a daughter who has lost her mother by her mothers choices, there will never be a time I dont wish my mother would embrace me and love me like I love my children. There will always be an empty hole in me yearning for this. That shows me daily, with my own faults, that those mistakes arent counted in a child's eyes. We all have different opinions on how to parent, and what is appropriate as far as ages and milestones for these types of things...I truly believe that parenting isnt about all that nonsense. It's about teaching your child how to be respectful,have morals, self repect,modesty, how to be caring, and honest poeple. How to survive the real world, how to fail but get back up, how to try a little more, ask for forgiveness when you lose sight of things. What better way to teach your children than through you? I want to be a mom to really truly Iisten to them when they speak, but also when they don't, and always, always, make sure they know that I respect them and love them enough to try to understand them and embrace them in any way they need with a full and open heart. Love is not a hard act to do, understanding can be hard, compromise can be hard,expression can be hard, worry can be hard, growing up can be hard,as a mother and as a child, but with the right amount of love all those things are so easy ❤👩‍👧 this is us, embracing this special moment together, as tiny as it may seem to others, its absolutely wonderful to me ❤