Daughters

Every home should have a daughter,
for there's nothing like a girl

To keep the world around her
in one continuous whirl.

From the moment she arrives on earth,
and on through womanhood.

A daughter is a female
who is seldom understood.

One moment she is laughing,
the next she starts to cry,

Man can't understand her
and there's just no use to try.

She is soft and sweet and cuddly,
but she's also wise and smart,

She's a wondrous combination
of a mind and brain and heart.

And even in her baby days
she's just a born coquette.

And everything she really wants
she manages to get.

For even at a tender age
she uses all her wiles.

And she can melt the hardest heart
with the sunshine of her smiles.

She starts out as a rosebud
with her beauty unrevealed.

Then through a happy childhood
her petals are unsealed.

She's soon a sweet girl graduate,
and then a lovely woman.

as the rosebud opens wide.
And some day in the future

if it be God's gracious will,
She, too, will be a mother
whose heart is filled with love

When she beholds the angel
that God sent her from above.
And there would be no life at all
in this world or the other

Without a darling daughter who,
in turn, becomes a Mother!
~Helen Stiener Rice~

Love Always, Mom

You were just as beautiful as a baby,
as you are now, with those big blue eyes.
This pic was taken in 1980
when you were only two.