So, last night, I am up devouring another one of Jodi Picoult’s books.   I can’t keep my hands off of them…..and I can’t put them down!  This one paragraph hit me really hard last night.  It sums up what I have been feeling in my life since Punky was born… This is from Vanishing Act:

“I can’t think of anything more terrifying than losing Sophie [Main charcter’s 5 year old daughter].  When you’re pregnant, you can think of nothing but  having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort.  That’s the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don’t even realize how much you were missing one.”

Amazingly very true!!!!  (Except  that I LOVED being pregnant!)