Dear Olivia,

If you could have seen your mom through my eyes today. Holding you so gently. Bundling you so tightly. Smiling down at you. That light of true, devoted, forever lasting, unselfish kind of love in her eyes. You would have known then and there, from your very first full day on earth that your mom was one of the great ones. That she is always going to be there for you. She's going to sacrifice for you. Work her butt off for you. Want to give you the kind of life that she herself was never blessed with. She'll almost always put your needs ahead of her own. She's always going to be there for you. Pick you up whenever your down. Hold your hand through all of life's trials. There's no need for you to ever feel alone because you're mom IS one of the great one's. You're little now, so you can't possibly know yet but I do and I'll tell you... and fifteen or twenty years from now when you, yourself, finally realize how lucky you are to have a mom like yours... I'll just smile and say yea... if only I could have captured and bottle the moments of today you would have always known yourself that I knew you were blessed with a great mom when you were still just twenty four hours old.