It Gets Me Every Time
Mood:  special
Topic: Lauren
Sometimes I swear my daughter is really my mother come back in a new body.

As mentioned in Another Whole Year Passes, I found out I was pregnant with Lauren the day my mother died. After Lauren was born, she was so much my mother, I could not, and still can not, believe it. From the day she was born, her hands and fingers are the spitting image of my mother's. She moves her feet in the exact same way my mother moved hers - rotating in little circles. When Lauren was 9 months old we snapped a picture of her playing in her MegaSaucer and she looked so much like my mom, it was uncanny.

Well, it happened again over the weekend. We put up our Christmas tree and for the past two days Lauren has been pointing out her favorite ornaments to me. She picks my mother's ornaments that I now have. They were my mother's favorites as well.