Tomorrow`s Woman- ode to my daughter

My daughter was born on an unprecedantatly chilly August on the same day her Dad was born. After an excruciating  C-section that is now more blur than nightmare,I held the little girl I had been praying for  for years and named her Janelle, which means God has heard. I was a second time mom and was quite familiar with feelings emotions and all such things associated with the birth of a child but somehow giving birth to a daughter was different. It stirred up the feminist in me, stirred in me the wish and ambition to make this world a better place for a little girl whose dreams might be shattered just for being the wrong gender. It made me want to do things that I had long abandoned because I was too busy being Percy`s wife, the good daughter in- law and all round respectable woman. I began to realise the importance of getting my master`s degree, opening the coffee shop cum boutique I had been dreaming of doing, starting that blog etc. For my daughter`s sake, I want her to know it can be done, because mom tried it and did it. I want her to be proud of me as a woman, I want her to never run out a mentor because I would be there, I want her to have a reference, a role model and be everything my own mother was and more. I want her to be a ballerina if she wants, a soccer player, a pilot, a race car driver anything in the world! I want her to know its okay for her to be anything she wants to be.
          As I write this blog, on the occasion of her second birthday, I say a little prayer for her,for God to protect her and give her the grace and strength to be the woman she is meant to be,Tomorrow`s Woman.....