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[quote name="Storm Bride" url=...but I have hundreds, probably thousands, of beautiful memories of the little things - laughing together, enjoying some hot chocolate (not exactly great for either of us) from a thermos at the side of the river in the pouring rain, watching him open the (probably MIC) Charmander pillow I gave him for Christmas, etc. I wasn't a perfect mom then, and I'm not a perfect mom now. But, one of the things that made me a reasonablly good mom to ds1 is that I was just sooooo happy to have him in my life.
.[quote name="Storm Bride" url=...but I have hundreds, probably thousands, of beautiful memories of the little things - laughing together, enjoying some hot chocolate (not exactly great for either of us) from a thermos at the side of the river in the pouring rain, watching him open the (probably MIC) Charmander pillow I gave him for Christmas, etc. I wasn't a perfect mom then, and I'm not a perfect mom now. But, one of the things that made me a reasonablly good mom to ds1 is that I was just sooooo happy to have him in my life.
