A Mother's Valentine

As I was working on Maggie's scrapbook recently, I came across a poem that a family friend gave me after Maggie was born. Her mother put it in her baby book in 1943.

A mother's valentine

for a baby book--

for a man somewhere. . .

Who will come some day . . .

My Son-in-Law

Somewhere, a little boy plays now,

My daughter's husband. As things go

By averages, I'm thinking how

They'll meet in twenty years; from what I know

Myself, of life and love. Grow strong,

My little unknown son, be not too free

With life-- she is all gold and song,

This little girl, so dear to me.

Watching her with her dolls today,

A mother in the bud-- it does not seem

Too foolish of me, son, that when I say

My prayer for her, I send some little boy a dream.

-Ruth Schenley

Happy Valentine's Day!