What is it about sleeping babies & children? I love photos of sleeping Children. They can stop me in my tracks and bring out something in me. I love watching my daughter sleep. I remember the first time she feel asleep in my arms, in the van shortly after leaving the baby home. I just felt so protective of her, like a Mama bear. My husband snapped a picture of that moment and I can honestly say I have never had that type of look on my face. It’s a very special picture to me and its the picture Im sharing with you today. Everyone who looks at the pictures mentions that I look angry in it, nope not angry. Protective is more like it. I was feeling protective of my brand new daughter sleeping in my arms and not a car seat as we sped down an icy Siberian road. I clung to her to keep her steady as we bumped along on our three-hour drive to our temporary hotel home. I remember looking down, breathing in her scent that was a mixture of her special smell and her Russian diet. These days when Livi is napping I take a minute to refresh & renew because when she wakes up she will be all energized and rearing to go..go… and go. I do love sneaking in and watching her sleep. There use to be this commercial that showed babies falling asleep, I just loved that commercial and I could not tell you what they where selling? Vicks, cough syrup? Formula? But every time I would see it as a Pap my heart would flutter. My heart flutters when watching my daughter sleep. Sleep soundly Livi... Mama is here to protect you.Happy Love Thursday.

Picture 3/21/06- leaving the baby home