I feel so blessed to be having you when I really thought that I was only going to have one child. You are a beautiful gift and I will treasure you (and your brother) for life. As a child and teenager I always saw my future as having two children, one boy and one girl, after Samuel was born I still hoped on day to have another child but had convinced myself that he was going to be it, until the day I discovered that I was pregnant with you. You complete my dreams of motherhood and with you my family is at last complete.
I worry about the world I am bringing you into but I look forward to helping you navigate your way through it. I hope that you grow up to be an empathetic, strong women who believes in herself and knows that she is fully capable on her own without needing a man to be complete. I hope you grow up believing that you are the equal of any man and worthy of the same rights that men have. In the world we live in right now women are men are supposedly equal but the reality is that women are still unrepresented in positions of power (although we currently have our first female prime minister is Julia Gillard) and are still paid lower wages then men in many professions despite having similar qualifications and levels of experience. I hope and pray that the world you grow up in will be different, that by the time you are entering the working world things will be more even but I think that this world have a long way to go before that truly happens.
I will do my best to teach and guide you, to instil a believe in yourself and sense of worth and teach you the things you need to survive in this world but most of all I will always love you and will always support you my baby girl. Already I love you so much that it brings tears to my eyes and I can not wait to hold you in my arms and look into your eyes for the first time.
I love you and always will
Mummy
