“Last First Birthday”

Feeling deep and sentimental as my littlest is about to turn 1 🫶🏻

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The thing with my second baby

Is that all her firsts

Are my lasts.

Her first smile, word, step and birthday –

I fold each one

And pack it away.

Stored neatly in my mind,

Like the clothes she’s outgrown,

Gently worn, for the last time.