Nuzzled

The other night I lay with my arm around my little Reya at bedtime.  She had had such an emotionally tumultuous day, and I wondered if I had even managed to fully express my love and affection to her, amidst managing her repeated fits and attempting to follow through on appropriate, consistent consequences.  Then, unexpectedly, like a little blessing, she climbed atop me, nuzzled her face into my neck, and declared in a passionate almost whisper, with the higher pitch of being two, "I so happy with you, Mama.  I very happy!".  The joy swelled in my heart, as I felt the love that one may only know in motherhood.