unconditional love...The best thing you can teach your children.

Some of us are romantics.  Some of us are realistic.  Some of us are a little in between.
As a child you look up at the adults around you and you can't wait to grow up.  You see all the things that people do around you, you remember the fairy tales, the cartoons, the hugs of your father and the kisses of your mother. 

You grow up and you have children and you see in them all the wonders of love and adoration.  You hold them and kiss them and keep them safe.  You read them stories and sang to them (even out of key :) ) at night and you looked in on them while they slept and often got all teary eyed at the creation you were blessed with.  You cradled them when they were scared. Rocked them when the could not sleep.

Through life's ups and downs and boo boo's you loved that child...those children.  You prayed that God would bless them with wisdom and riches that you never had and you protect them with your very life.  Sometimes we often over protect that precious one and they resent and become angry but their little hearts and minds are quickly growing and soon they forget that resentment and that anger and play happily along. 

That child learns from you how to love, to forgive, to cherish..to hug.  You pray that the precious moments are never lost in the quickness of time as they grow.  You pray that they remember the love, the hugs, the kisses. You pray they remember how much you loved them and how that never changed as they grew from baby to toddler to teen to adult. 

What you pray for most is that the child who grew from your heart to your arms and into the adult they are today, is the unconditional love that you gave them and hope that they return that to their own children..and then back to you. Because when they don't the ache you feel deep within is as a hundred tons is upon your heart.  Unconditional love...the best thing you can receive back from your children...the best thing you can teach your children.