Sweet Fragrant Mouth to Kiss

I read this today and I was touched by it. I wanted all the mama's in my world to read it. I still have the opportunity to kiss that little mouth and I have to be reminded how important our job is as a mama.

This quote is from the book Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss. She had just found out she was expecting her 3rd baby.

“She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing. Well! This is one side of the story, to be sure, but I look at the other. Here is a sweet fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which it dwells is worthy all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ’s name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mother’s heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her lifelong prayers!”(Stepping Heavenward, p.228-229).

(Dawn, I know this is going to make you cry)