38. I Love ... when all my children are happy.

They say that you are only as happy as 

your saddest child.

No truer words have ever been spoken.

When one of my children,

even though they are no longer

children,

are hurting,

disappointed,

worried ...

I am all of those things

as well.

I am of my children -

of all their emotions.

I don't know if that's right,

but it is the way

I am.

It is who

I am.

I carry them,

each and every one,

in my heart so wholely

that I cannot separate their emotions

from mine.

If one is hurting,

my heart is tied in a knot.

The happy ones may dance around it

but the knot is still there.

I love

when my all of children are

Happy.