When it comes back to you...

My eldest daughter Felicia text me tonight, all excited. She recently has gotten in contact with her Dad's side of the family, and they have welcomed her with open arms. The communication line has been hot between her and them. She has gotten to know her cousins, 5 or 6 by her Aunt Tracee, her Aunt Nicci, and Uncle Greg. She has been in contact with her Dad the last few years, every now and then, but not enough to mention. She has been also talking with her Grandma, her Dad's Mom, and tonight she gave Felicia her Dad's cell number. The old numbers were obsolete. She called her Dad and then found out later that he texts. She was so excited that she had to text me and tell me. They had been texting back and forth and somewhere in their conversation, he told her that he is ready to be part of her life and would like to be a part of her and his grandkids lives. Me, being her mother and once married to him, mention something like, "to bad he didn't want to be a part of her life when she was a baby". She then text back this.."And i probably wouldnt have been raised as well if he was around. U did good mom. Thank u i love u." Those were her exact words, taken from the text she wrote me, spelling and all. A few minutes later my other daughter Cheyenne came in and caught me crying and thinking there was something drastically wrong (my girls don't see their Mom cry much at all and when they do, they worry) she asked what was wrong. I showed her the text and explained what it was that had been said and then she understood. She got a little smile on her face and then threaten to call her sister and chew her out for making me cry. Lol! But as parents, we often wonder if the trouble that we go through when our kids are growing up, trying to teach them right from wrong, and if the things that we drilled in their heads ever took hold. And being a single parent, it is twice as hard, lucky for me I wasn't a single parent for long, but I still took on the responsibility as a single parent when it came to my girls, because their fathers weren't around. But when it comes back to you...and it will, it comes back unexpectedly, like tonight. Then you know that the time you spent on your kids was time well spent because those few little words mean the world to you, to know you did do good with your kids and that they do appreciate it. And even if you know that you did good, did your best, those few little words make it all worthwhile!