Butterfly Kisses

Carousels and wishing wells

Butterflies and daffodils

When little girls wore ponytails

and thought mom hung the moon

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Sweet silly grins, giggles and smiles

Catching sunfish on summer-lines

filling jars with fireflies _

Oh how the time goes by too soon.

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The - read me one more story_

please, but- do the voice this time.

Come on mom, and catch me

round the block, just one more time.

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Oh how tired I was, but those kisses and hugs -

make me wish those days were still mine.

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What a wonderful gift, just Being their mom.

Watching life beam, like the stars in their eyes

Weeks were long, nights were short,

but how fast the days flew - like the wind gently blowing on by.

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Holding on to these thoughts makes me feel warm inside,

special memories of moments now past.

What I'd give to go back and relive one more day,

if we could make just one small moment last.

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I’m proud they’re grown up,

doing things that they love.

Busy lives, making their way through life.

And we talk on the phone,

about things going on -

and they say when they can, they’ll stop by.

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Its how it goes, minute to minute, day by day, year by year -

Growing up moving on, so they say.

Its a passage that each of us has to go through.

I wouldn’t trade even one single day-

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For the wealth of the world,

there's nothing else I would do,

to replace what I have for, what if.

The grandest treasures in life, could never replace

hearing my kids saying mom, I love you.