The journey begins....

As the years have passed I have seen my 6lb, 8oz, 19 inches long, baby girl blossom into a beautiful little girl. On March 16, 2011 she began her journey into womanhood. It was a bitter sweet moment for me because I knew it was coming, all the signs were their. I guess I was just hoping the journey would begin later in her life. As a child, I remember beginning this journey and I remember my mom treating me like a princess. She had me lay in bed and put my feet up, then she made me hot chocolate. I have always known I wanted to make this event special for Ariel, but I never knew what exactly I wanted to do.

Last summer, a good friend of mine told me what she had planned for her daughter and I loved the idea, then I stole it. It worked well because I knew I wanted to do something for my daughter that she had never done before. I took her to get her very first professional pedicure and she loved it. She had never done this before because I could never justify spending $40.00 to get a little girl's toes done when I could do it for free. I hated to face it, but she was no longer a little girl. She was becoming a young lady. It was a great day and I embarrassed her a bit because I took pictures of the little Chinese guy painting her toes, but someday she will look back at those pictures and remember, just as I remember my mom and I on that day. When she is a mommy and her little girl begins the journey I am sure she will do something special for her too.

And so as this blog is entitled “The journey begins”…I will end it with “The journey continues….”