Success is..
finding a heart drawn at the bottom of my son's school paper with "MOM" written in it.....
wanting to make me my coffee "just the way I like it" before he even has breakfast.....
asking me if I'm okay when I hurt myself...
a wet kiss on my cheek when he thinks I'm sleeping......
finally being able to remove the protective wooden slats from the insides of his bedroom windows (he no longer tries to put his fists through them).....
a holiday not totally destroyed by raging and screaming.....
missing me when he is at school.....
wanting to do what mom says most of the time...
being able to sleep at night before three a.m....
realizing there is success in our lives....
by Marta Whitney
