“We brought you home, 16 years ago, tiny as a little kitten, swaddled in a yellow blanket embroidered with pretty flowers and a bonnet to match. Each night, you would want me to carry you forever and ever and although for the first few months I was this breastfeeding, sleepless, and tired mommy, it was the happiest kind of tired, and you would reward me daily anyway with a thousand little smiles, all of them imprinted in that part of my memories that is tender, and sweet. I would stare at you while you slept (something I still do to this day), my heart filled to overflowing with that pure kind of love every mother feels for her child,” Lucy wrote.
She also called Juliana their gift from heaven.
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