This is how I say I love you

On Motherhood: The main thing is not to hurry

I love you in all the ways I don’t say and all the ways I do. In all the ways you don’t yet understand but someday will.

When you were a baby I would hold you for as long as you wanted me to, zeroing in on the calm of your breath, the flutter of your eyelashes, and the quiet that felt fleeting and eternal all at once. I didn’t know it then but in those m…