“How do you want your kids to remember you?” This question was posed in one of the teambuilding activities sponsored by the company I work for among employees with families of their own. I was still single and pretty new to the company around this time and I have been working with brainy colleagues, so the question did not take quite long to be answered. I was amazed by how varied and how deep they were. Then, Sandy, one of them, answered something that struck a chord on me. He said, “I just want my kids to remember happy memories every time they are with me and I am with them when they grow up. It’s so important that they associate me for “happy memories.”

I thought I just heard the most beautiful answer at that time. I thought I would like to answer the question exactly like he said it by the time I have my own family. And now that I have Kyle David, I hope and pray that one day, if someone ever asks him what he remembers about me, he will recall happy memories. When that happens, I would consider myself the happiest mother in the world.