Jodi Picoult Quote...

Lately I have been devouring Jodi Picoult novels. I love how she writes about real-life situations. Every now and then I come across a quote like this one that I cannot help but to write it down and read it often. I thought it appropriate to share with all of you mothers who I know feel the same way. I just love it when someone puts exactly into words how I feel!

"When your pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep them close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother. Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one." --Jodi Picoult