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Children are such heavy sleepers that you can lean over them and nuzzle and pat them without waking them up. Sometimes I'll breathe in the scent of the shampoo on my son's hair and I'll think how extraordinary this little guy is and how lucky I am. When he wakes up, he puts out his arms to be carried and touches his little face to mine and says, “I love you Mommy” in that stream-of-consciousness way, where whatever he's thinking just comes out of his mouth. As adults, we're always aware of another person's reaction when we say something like that or touch him or her. I've never had such unselfconscious contact with anyone as I do with my boy. There's something so intimate about ministering to someone from the moment they're born that you never have to establish a relationship. It's already there, and the love just keeps on growing.

“The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway. So skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.”

—Barbara Bush

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