How does a mother express her love for her children? Two words: Hurricane Harbor. At least those were the words for today. You know when kids are so giddy that their smiles pull back toward their ears and their whole body seems as tight as a bowstring?
All afternoon, I saw these smiles.
And it's impossible not to be affected by it. I mean, it's not like I wanted to spend the afternoon at Hurricane Harbor for myself. Clearly not. But seeing the girls like that, laughing and screaming, all of us playing shark in the lazy river, it was wonderful in a way I couldn't have imagined 10 years ago. Sweating and getting deeply sunburned didn't seem recreational in those many (too many) years between my own childhood and revisiting it with my children.
God, I love being a mom. And where did I leave the aloe vera?
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