Last night, while I was tucking the girl in, Emma said, “Mamam, did you know that I try to do things to make you happy?”

Then Zienne added, “Ya, we want you to be really happy. Even when I’m sad, I still love you.”

I love how honest my children are with me about their feelings.  I love that my love for them isn’t in vain. I love how they love me, at the end of the day, they tell me what’s most important in their hearts, and one of them is their love. Man…I wish I could keep them this age, with their hearts in tact.

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