Parents

Our children make us proud often to the point of silliness we are in awe and somewhat amazed at what they have achieved at whom they have become but knew all along that they were special and when we look at them we wonder with delight and a little sadness at what point did they don their independence having earned their place in the world their right to an opinion when casting back to find that moment to pin it down we realise that it wasn’t a specific point in time nor was it sign-posted by a single event it was a process a journey that we took together a journey of mutual discovery and enrichment a journey filled with gratitude, joy and fulfilment a journey tempered with difficulty, pain and heart-ache a journey that taught us to unconditionally forgive and bestowed upon us the uplifting humility of being forgiven a journey that allowed the true meaning of love to become lodged within us it seems to have taken an age but happened in a heart-beat and when we look upon this wondrous gift this gift that transformed us into parents we realise one of life’s beautiful truths our children are conceived by us but we are shaped and made better by them.