Goodnight

Dear Lucy,
Tonight I watched you fall asleep, like really watched, for the first time. It was silent - just the hums of our old house, and dark - but I could still see that your eyes were open. In each of your tiny hands you held one finger from my left hand. And we just stared at each other. We just laid there and stared at each other and as your eyes shut your little hands let go, little by little...until you let yourself turn today off and prepare your little body for tomorrow.

I don't know why I didn't pay that much attention before.

~Ma