I had a really great conversation with my amazing grandmother, Mama, the other day. She wanted to know all about Teddy and Charlie of course and said, as she always does ” So do you love being a mother?” To which I replied “I love it so much.” I was lamenting them growing up so fast and she said ” They get cuter every day it’s just a different kind of cute as they grow.” She is so right. She should know. After raising 10 children (11 if you count me since she raised me for the first part of my life). And as usual she went on and on about how all little children are so sweet as if after all these babies and all these years she is still amazed by them. And when I asked what to do with a two year old and their tantrums she said to remember, “Sometimes they get ornery but they don’t mean to be. They just don’t know. So don’t ever scream and holler at them. Just keep telling them ‘No’ if the need to stop doing something. And they will learn.” So simple. I hope I can be as good of a mother, grandmother, and great grandmother as Mama.